{"id":3893,"date":"2025-07-08T17:52:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T00:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2025-07-08T17:52:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T00:52:49","slug":"what-heaven-is-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2025\/07\/08\/what-heaven-is-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What Heaven Is Like"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

What Heaven Is Like<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus
\nis reported
\nto have Loved
\nHis Metaphors,<\/p>\n

often comparing
\nHeaven
\nto a Kingdom of
\nLove.<\/p>\n

Once Saying,
\n\u201cIt\u2019s Like When
\na Rebellious and
\nRenegade Son is
\nGreeted by His
\nAdoring Father
\nwith a Robe and
\na Ring and
\na Sumptuous Banquet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Or a Woman,
\ncaught in a
\nHooker\u2019s Transgression,
\nis Told by Him,
\nafter Chasing Away
\nHer Prosecutors,
\nthat He Rejects
\ntheir Judgment and
\nCondemnation.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s Free
\nto Go and
\nFind a Better Way.<\/p>\n

But, Above All,
\nI Favor
\nHis Metaphor<\/p>\n

for Receiving an
\nOpen Invitation
\nto Enter
\nThe Heaven of
\nThat Kingdom of Love:<\/p>\n

Practice until
\nYou can Live
\nThe Life of
\na Child,<\/p>\n

Filled with
\nLaughter and
\nPlay and
\nBelieving in
\nMagic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  What Heaven Is Like Jesus is reported to have Loved His Metaphors, often comparing Heaven to a Kingdom of Love. Once Saying, \u201cIt\u2019s Like When a Rebellious and Renegade Son is Greeted by His Adoring Father with a Robe and a Ring and a Sumptuous Banquet.\u201d Or a Woman, caught in a Hooker\u2019s Transgression, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3895,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions\/3895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}