I don't think I've ever heard anyone say, "Money is the key to happiness." And, according to Luke's account, Jesus himself said, "Blessed [happy] are the poor...."  Perhaps we (the human race) are missing something: could it be that it's not the economy that's our problem?

Why is advertising on Christian radio so much like advertising everywhere else--aimed at selfish consumerism?  What if every ad on Christian radio connected the product or service to what a Christian ought to be doing with it in the world?  "Too busy talking with your neighbors about the Lord to cook?  How about a salad from McDonald's instead?"  "Worried that your wife is overworked? How about treating her to a day at ___?" "Need a new app? Or is it time to purchase one for your mother in the nursing home instead?" (If not now, try that one in sixty years.)  Seems like Christian advertisers and broadcasters ought to start thinking differently from the world.

heaven

The problem of heaven always seeming boring to us--but maybe it's like having Alzheimer's: it's a new world every minute. :-)

The older I get, the better Heaven sounds.  But it's not just that one grows weary of the world and its messes.  It's that the closer I'm getting to it, the more exciting it becomes to find out what really is on the other side.  I mean, there will come a day--maybe today, maybe years from now--when I will be on the brink and then make the leap or take the step or slide the slide or just evaporate, and I too will find out what all the dead since Abel bit the dust have been discovering. 

It will be better than space travel, which I'm totally too much of a coward to undertake., much as I am fascinated by it and by the thought of what's out there.  But travel to Heaven--whatever form that takes--will be beyond awesome.  Think of Jesus taking off from the Mount of Olives--he just rises into space and disappears.  Did hawks or eagles see him pass by?  :-)

The evidence is rather otherwise.  The more we travel into space, the more space we cover without running into God.  Is He out there?  We like to think that He is.  But believers also know that He is wherever believers are--in the Holy Spirit.  Where is He?  He's right here. 

So where is Heaven?  I'll bet we could travel to the farthest reaches of the universe and still not run into God.

The only way to get to God is through Jesus--the "Door," the "Way," and the only way to get through that Door is to die. 

God is not "out there." He is in another dimension altogether, and we ain't a'goin' there except through death.  I hope that sounds like fun. (But don't go jumping the gun to get there; there are no promises about shortcuts--the race has still got to be run.)