To Hell and Back

I remember saying to a friend of mine, "Oh goodness, I love you to hell and back!" I meant this, of course, in a positive way. Like saying that you love someone to the moon and back, but more intense.
Okay, yes it does sound a bit morbid; but that is not the point of this story.
Anyways, my friend told me that it sounded better to say, "I love you to heaven and back." And for a while, I said exactly that.
But, after I had given this more thought, (Why I gave it more thought I have no idea) I decided that I meant what I had originally said.
I have grown up in the church, and so I have heard countless times about Heaven and about how Christians have Jesus in their hearts. And you know what? I don't think Heaven is as far away as we make it out to be. If you are a Christian, the holy spirit of God (the God who dwells in heaven) is inside of you and your spirit. Your spirit then, is really quite close to heaven. If you really love God and talk to him often, it makes sense that your mind is quite close to heaven as well.
I also believe that we can catch glimpses of what Heaven is, if we know how to look. Heaven is essentially being with God. So, when you do things that bring you closer to God, you taste what Heaven will feel like.
When I was on a mission trip in the Dominican Republic, I spent most of my time with a little girl named Milagros (miracle). I didn't do anything huge for her, I just loved on her constantly. Even though that week was a hard one, I think I tasted Heaven through a little girl who shared my Abuela's name.

So, the distance between Heaven and I is not such a great distance. The distance between me and Hell however, is a distance to brag about in His name. I will NEVER go to Hell. No one can ever snatch me out of my Father's hands. Not height or depth, not death or life, not rulers of the darkness of this world or spiritual wickedness in high places can take me from God's hands. The distance between the children and saints of the most high God is a distance to be reckoned with; Farther than the sun is from Pluto (which is totally a planet). Hell cannot touch us, it is too far away.

Although it sounds dark, to say that I love someone to Hell and back is to say that I love them infinitely. But the real point is that for God's kids, Heaven is everywhere we choose to seek it out, and Hell is so far away that we may breath easy.

That's my opinion,

And that's all she wrote.