In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?" — John 14:2   There is a way we talk about heaven that, without meaning to, drains it of its reality.   We say things like “they're in a better place”, which is true, but vague enough to mean almost anything. We describe it as peace, as rest, as the absence of suffering. And all of those things are accurate. But somewhere in the softening of the language, heaven c...