There is great wisdom in this FB post I found:
C.S. Lewis (the most-quoted non-member in General Conference) from
his book "The Great Divorce" to all my precious friends here who have
experienced monstrous adversity to become Saturday's Warriors:
“Son,'he said,' ye cannot in your present state understand
eternity...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal
suffering, "No future bliss can make up for it," not knowing that Heaven,
once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a
glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and
I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread
back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.
Both processes begin even before death. The good man's past begins to
change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the
quality of Heaven: the bad man's past already conforms to his badness
and is filled only with dreariness. And that is why...the Blessed will
say "We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven, : and the Lost, "We
were always in Hell." And both will speak truly.”
"The spirit of Heaven is within you."
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