On April 28, 2006, as he lay in his hospital bed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, visions of celestial beauty were the last thing on Marv Besteman's mind. He had just had surgery to remove a rare pancreatic tumor. It was after visiting hours and his family had left for the day. Alone and racked with pain, Marv tossed and turned, wanting more than anything else to simply sleep and escape the misery and discomfort for a while. The retired banker, father, and...

When a young girl asks her grandmother about heaven, they both go into the woods and find signs of heaven all around them in nature.

"With all of my heart, I believe it is true, that there is a heaven for animals, too. The heaven of animals is a magical place. Angels know every dog's favorite game; cats bask in their own rays of sunshine; horses thunder across the sky. The loss of a pet is heartbreaking. But in the heaven of animals, the love you have for your animal friends lives on. Nancy Tillman's message of comfort will help readers of all ages through the process of grieving...

"A smart and thought-provoking cultural history of heaven. What do we think of when we think about heaven? What might it look like? Who or what might be there? Since humans began to huddle together for protection thousands of years ago, these questions have been part of how civilizations and cultures define heaven, the good place beyond this one. From Christianity to Islam to Hinduism and beyond, from the brush of Michelangelo to the pen of Dante,...

The exuberance of a man and his mule newly arrived in heaven causes so much furor that God gives them one last chance before He throws them out.

A mild mannered ticket-taker at a movie theater believes himself to be the son of God with the responsibility to judge whether people will spend eternity in heaven or hell. When a ghost stuck in purgatory interrupts Walter's daily routine his world is turned upside down.

"... gives readers insight into the celebrations on the other side"--P. [4] of cover.

This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet's vision now becomes accessible to the modern reader in this...

Pulling from such noted authors, scholars, and theologians as C.S. Lewis, Charles Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards, Martin Luther, Augustine, Max Lucado, Philip Yancey, and countless others, "Eternal Perspectives" is the ultimate resource for anyone looking for inspirational quotes and passages on the topic of Heaven.

Letters. Whether bound by string and yellowed by age or e-mailed across cyberspace, there is something romantic, even magical, about the intimate thoughts and treasured words of those who care for us. Leave it to gifted storyteller Jack Cavanaugh to bring us the most wonderful correspondence of all: letters from heaven, our true home. With the warmth and brevity of a short story collection, yet the piercing conviction of C. S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters,...