Ask Heaven
Music Composers end compositions on the home key note. For example, in the key of G the home key is a C. It feels stable. Settled. Complete. The home key is called the tonic. Humans like things finished and not unresolved, up in the air. We seek pattern completion, coherence, reduction of tension. God so created the world— Inhale-exhalate, departure-return, conflict-resolution. Answers to questions.
There are unresolved mysteries that can only be answered in heaven. There are personal ones like, could my dogs read my mind? There are some pretty big historical mysteries like, who was Jack the Ripper? Who was D.B. Cooper and what happened to him? Who killed Jimmy Hoffa and where was he buried? These mysteries will never be resolved.
When I get to heaven what age will I be? Peak physical age for men is between age 25-35. In many respects it was my coming-of-age period of my life—I could do anything and tried to. In heaven, is this the age I will be—not a baby and not an old man. Or is age irrelevant in the not knowing and knowing, in the absence of negatives and positives where neutrality prevails and the object of life is is.
There are more contemporary mysteries like, who poisoned the Tylenol pills? In 1982 someone tampered with Tylenol bottles and laced the tablets with lethal doses of potassium cyanide. Seven people died. John David Gosch, a West Des Moines paper boy where I lived, disappeared on his paper route between 6 and 7 a.m. on September 5, 1982. He was presumed to have been kidnapped. JonBenét Patricia Ramsey was an American child beauty pageant winner who was killed at age six in her family’s home at 755 15th Street in Boulder, Colorado, on the night of December 25, 1996. Unresolved.
Then there are personal questions. Did an angel rescue me from the car crash that left me with a broken neck and two years of recovery. I had taken my son to college and was driving home, and detoured to get around an accident. I was traveling on county road when a woman ran a stop sign and T-boned my Bronco going highway speed. I was sent into a roll down an embankment that crushed my Bronco into a cigar shape at the bottom of a ravine. I was found along the side of the road, unconsciousness. The way my senses came back was sound first and then much later I was able to see. The first sound I heard was a voice asking, “Was anyone else in the car?” In slow motion my brain processed the question. “Where are my kids?” I spent the next several hours trying to remember where they were. I showed the pictures of the wrecked car to a psychologist and asked how I escaped. She said it was, “magic.”
I still I want to know where the arrow come from? When I was eight years old standing in the back yard, out of nowhere an arrow whizzed by my head and stuck in the ground. Where did the arrow come from? Who launched it?
Who was the little girl in the attic window and what was her story? When I was 10 years old, we used to visit my grandparents. They lived in a basement. When we visited them, we sat alongside the house in green clamshell metal lawn chairs. There was always a young girl peeking out the attic window of a three-story house next story watching me. I imagined she was trapped there. I’d like to meet that girl and hear her story.
Did he know I caught him cheating? I was just starting out my career and was playing poker with the executive head of a major Iowa corporation. I saw him pull a card from the discard pile and put it in his hand. We made eye contact and he folded so I think he knew.
When I was six years old, my sister said she would time me on how long it would take to get her something at the corner store. Did she time me?
Embarrassing flight. On a flight to San Jose, when I entered the bathroom, someone had peed all over the floor. When I exited there was woman waiting for the bathroom, and I told her someone made a mess in the bathroom. Did she think I did it?
Who was it that stole my credit card and charged a basketball and an airplane ticket to Brazil? Why not a soccer ball?
Why don’t they still compose sixties music. Sixties music spanned a wide range of styles, Pop, soul/R&B, country crossovers and folk and it was popular to a wide range of people. Could it be produced today or is there a time space limitation that keeps it stuck in the sixties. Will there be sixties music in heaven?
Every day more questions and more blessings.
