Part 2 The second book of Terrors Then you will know that it is I the LORD who strikes you.

Where is God? Where is he to be found? And what is he and how? Where is he living? In a multidimensional time or space? The bible says, God is in heaven. Heaven is where God is. But where is it? Where does he start and where does he end? Where is the place God starts or God ends? Is there a no-God-place? The bible says that even hell is not a completely God-less place. How much less our world. But where is he? And where is he not? Where does heaven start? There is a sky, the birds share it with planes and stars. Is heaven in the sky? The sky starts at our feet, where solid ground ceases to be and reaches up into what to us is infinite sky. But heaven? Is it part of the sky? Is the sky part of heaven? Do they overlap? It seems to me that heaven describes another dimension of being. Parallel to the sky, the earth, to our everyday life. And still in the midst of it. Maybe heaven is behind and in all material things, if he can be found. Though heaven isn't material in our sense of the world, though it doesn't describe material or physically proven reality, it still describes reality. It seems to me anti-material, whether that refers to its being anti-matter, I don't know. I do know that heaven is the other, the different, as God is different and yet a deep part of all being. Paul said, that bodies would be different there. As different as the oak is from the acorn. Jesus went bodily to heaven. So there is a material reality to it. But it is not necessarily a term referring to some touchable or visible entity here. More to a spiritual realm. A realm, whose impact we feel, maybe resent, but nontheless are unable to find with greedy fingers or minds. Heaven is the place where God is. It usually begins in somebody's heart. Or in the mind, maybe in the marrow of bones. God seems rarely concerned with buildings, even though he gave minute instructions as to how to make the ark of the covenant. Yet, he may not live in a church, as much as he didn't live in the ark. To go to church to find God isn't really how it works. It is like having a washing machine without knowing what it is there for or without instructions and water or electricity. The washing machine in itself will do nothing, if not filled with water and driven by electricity. So are we before God. The church in itself is very useful. But without God's Spirit or without our making it work by God's presence it will not accomplish anything.