Language of Heaven

Hispanics have a joke that is a play on words between English and Spanish. They say that Spanish is what is spoken in heaven. When you ask how that can be they say that Spanish is spoken in Los Angeles (which is the city of angels) and if the angels speak Spanish then Spanish must be the language of heaven.

Over the years, being a white person in a white church, it seems like the attitude of the church is that the only people in heaven are white and they speak English. I helped out with the sound system for a time in a black church and their attitude seemed to be that the only people in heaven were black and spoke English.

It's really funny when you think of it how narrow and closed minded the citizens of the United States are. If you get into other countries and cultures, it is not that way. Hispanics, for example, understand that there probably is a mixture of people in heaven; after all, hispanic culture is very mixed.

It will be interesting when that day comes and each of us has to face the final judgment. I think there will be an lot of very surprised people when heaven doesn't conform to the way they envision it.