Dear Gabriel,

I was reading a passage from a religious book with a friend. It said “view death not as an end but just changing homes.” It is a good thought, but you might go further. Death is not just changing homes because heaven is here now, all around us. If it exists, I don’t think that it is in some distant place up in the sky or in space. It is here now; it is as if you could stretch out and put your hand through that curtain in the room and it would be there.

Yours,

Doubting Thomas