I heard a song today by Stephen Curtis Chapman. I used to listen to him all the time. Several years ago, Jeremy and I took our son Joshua to see him in concert. Hearing his voice and the familiar beat of his music just made me want to turn up the volume as I was driving to do some errands today. I soon forgot about the music and paid close attention to the lyrics. He writes:
Somebody told me that this path that leads to heaven will not be the easy way. Well I found that to be true. Oh, but I also found out there’s…No better place on earth than the road that leads to heaven. No other place I’d rather be…
I know this path I travel on is very straight and narrow. But I’ve looked down other roads along the way and from all I’ve seen I can say without a doubt there’s…No better place on earth than the road that leads to heaven. No other place I’d rather be…
I turned the radio off when the song was over and found myself tearing up as I looked at the scenery surrounding the road I was on. Call it whatever experience you like, but I used to call it a “God moment”, and I just started weeping. I began to think about my life in the past few years and how much it has changed. At each turn, I can look back and see myself glancing down different roads. I took some that were, without a doubt, wrong turns. Now it seems that everything in the past few years pointed to this one road – the one that I am on now. It is a narrow road. It is one that I have found hard to understand at times and hard to explain because the world has so distorted it. It has seemed to be so clearly the wrong direction to some, but just as clearly the right direction to me. And there really is no other place I’d rather be.
When you are on the right road, one can become relaxed and look around more. One is at peace knowing that, no matter the challenges along the way, as long as we are headed the right direction, all is well. The road is beautiful. It is the road to heaven…and it begins right here on earth.
I experience heaven on earth in Divine Liturgy at our Church. If you have never set foot into an Eastern Orthodox Church, you will not know what I mean until you do. 
It is an experience like none other. I sincerely recommend giving it a try. I cannot help but be humbled and awed every time I walk into the doors of our Church. To know that we are worshipping the way God instructed His people to worship! To know that God instructed Worship to be patterned after worship in heaven and that we are still doing it to this day! To know that we have a glimpse of heavenly worship in the book of Revelation, and that our worship is patterned after that to this very day! Yes, there is a road that leads to heaven. I am finally on it…And there is no place I’d rather be than the road that leads to heaven.
