Bridge to Heaven

Joseph Knecht
TImeless stories & fables
14 min readJun 28, 2020

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This is a chapter from my book “Who We Are”. The full book can be ordered on Amazon.com in Kindle eBook or Paperback version. Enjoy reading!!!

The planet Earth was a boring place. It appeared that many things were happening on Earth but all things were just appearances without substance. However, that was not the worst of it all. The worst was the fact that the people who were born on Earth did not know if they were born in Heaven or in Hell. On Earth, there was too much suffering and misery to be called Heaven and there was too much goodness and beauty to be called Hell. Somewhere between Heaven and Hell, all the people of Earth lived their futile lives.

One day, one lone man received a vision from a place unknown. In his vision, across the deep blue waters on Earth, he saw a place so magical, so astonishing that it appeared like Heaven. He saw that Heaven was a real place, but there was endless water that had to be crossed to get to it. To get to Heaven, all the people of Earth had to build a bridge across the blue waters. Humanity had to build a bridge that extends to Heaven. Once built, all the humans could cross the bridge and leave Earth and become permanent dwellers in the Heavens.

The powerful vision showed the visionary man the possibilities for Earth to become a new Heaven. The vision told this one man that he must gather all of humanity and at a cost…

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