The Ascent

What if a coach pulled up to your door to deliver you to Heaven? What if there was but one seat remaining and it was offered to you? Here it is, the chance for eternal salvation, free from the chains of society, free from repressive patterns, free from soul-crushing routine, free from fear and chaos, free from sin itself. Here is your chariot to deliver you to joy and love, with one remaining vacancy just for you. Would you accept?

What about the people you are leaving behind? Will they ever gain admission into Heaven? Will they wait for the day when you return with the coach to pick them up? By then, will it be too late for them? Would you accept this gift if it meant that others remained in Hell? Would you surrender your seat to someone whom you felt deserved it more?

Is the coach required to deliver us to Heaven? Is Heaven some place elsewhere to which we must journey? Will we find it by looking skyward?

Or has it always been around us?