Description
Most of us grew up picturing the Kingdom of Heaven as a place somewhere beyond the clouds, a destination we would finally reach after death if we lived well enough. It is one of the most deeply embedded assumptions in Christian thinking, and it is almost entirely wrong. What Jesus actually meant when He spoke those words has very little to do with geography and everything to do with something already alive inside you, pressing against the walls of your ordinary life, refusing to let you settle.
This issue of The Monthly Word dismantles the comfortable old picture and replaces it with something far more unsettling and far more exciting: the discovery that the Kingdom is not waiting for you somewhere in the future. It has been waiting within you since before you were born, encoded into the very fabric of who you are, and it will not stop making its presence felt until you pay attention. If you have ever lain awake at night sensing that your life was supposed to mean something more than it currently does, you have already felt its pull. Now find out what it actually is.
