I wonder if my tenth-grade religion teacher, Mr. D'Alessio knew what he'd done the day he handed out individual assignments to the class. He liked to mix it up a little so that everyone's project would be different. When he walked up to my desk he said:

"I want you to write a paper on life after death."
I said: "What do you mean? You want me to make it up?"
"No, I want you to research it."
"Last I heard, dead people don't talk and they don't come back."
"Oh yes my dear, they do, and they're talking."

I wrote the paper using the only documented cases I could find. It was from a book by Raymond Moody, M.D. It gave me a rush. I got an A and was asked to present it to the class. Thus began a lifelong quest. Over the course of 15 years working with the dying I acted as confidante and witness to the most amazing accounts of pre-death and near-death experiences. The most fascinating were the few occasions the dying person described all they were experiencing until they drew their last breath.

Today I came across the article quoted below. It's another one of those:
'I wish I wrote it, but I didn't, and therefore I'm glad someone else did.'

I also believe as surely as hell has existed on earth, so does heaven exist on earth. To experience heaven on earth, we have to heal the eye of the heart so we see life through the lens of love instead of the lens of fear. Then we see the beauty, courage and nobility of our human family and the exquisite natural beauty of the earth. When we're in love,we experience heaven on earth. That's why we long for that experience. Through our much disparaged "rose colored glasses", we see the truth. Heaven is already on earth. We don't have to wait until we die.

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