New Heaven and New Earth:

Those who know me know I am a heaven guy. Those who don't know me, ask me about it sometime.

This latest one comes from CS Lewis' "The Last Battle," the last book of the Chronicles of Narnia. Read Revelation 21-22 before reading on.

"It is hard to explain how this sunlit land was different from the old Narnia, as it would be to tell you how the fruits of that country taste. Perhaps you will get some idea of it, if you think like this. You may have been in a room in which there was a windown that looked out on a lovely bay of the sea or a green valley that wound away among mountains. And in the wall of that room opposite to the window there may have been looking glass. And as you suddenly caught sight of that sea or that valley, all over again, in the looking glass. And the sea in the mirror, or the valley in the mirror, were in the one sense just the same as the real ones: yet at the same time they were somehow different-deeper, more wonderful, more like places in a story: In a story you have never heard but very much want to know. The difference between the old Narnia and the new Narnia was that. The new one was a deeper country: every rock and flower and blade of grass looked as if it meant more. I can't describe it any better than that: if you ever get there, you will know what I mean.

It was the Unicorn who summoned up what everyone was felling. He stamped his right fore-hoof on the ground and neighed and then cried:

"I have come home at last. This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it until now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this. Breee-heee-heee. Come further up, come further in."