One of my greatest struggles is taking a real day off. I get bored. I start to work. I sin by not taking a real sabbath (Sunday is a work day for us in the ministry).

My blessing is a curse. I get paid to do what I love to do. My work, for the most part, is my pleasure. I’m an artist and I love technology. I literally slid into the job of getting paid for making art in the form of electronic media. So it is challenging to take 24 hours off from doing that.

Today I did. I took my wife to Sea World. As I rode the ‘Great White’ roller coaster for the first time, the morning Texas air cleaned my mind.

My head ach stopped. My blood pressure dropped. My heart pumped faster.

For a short time I wasn’t thinking about deadlines, clients, bugs to fix, sermons, videos, or budgets. I was just looking into the foothills of the Hill Country on the top of a coaster, flying fast, and getting jerked into the opposite direction headed for an inverted cork screw.

I wish I could have seen my smile. I wish those moments could last forever.

Is that what Heaven will be like?