Did not Jesus Christ say, the Kingdom of God is within you?
Heaven is in our midst and gratitude is a way to unearth its presence in our lives.
When we can begin being grateful, seeing what is given as a gift, which is all that comes from the hand of God, even punishments, we may dwell in heaven on earth, beholding life as heavenly, lifted, surrounded and imbued by light beaming from all directions embracing our circumstance, the room in which we dwell, a safety, a security, an existence upon bright golden clouds, yet here in this world on this earth, alive, not yet having reached eternal life, yet immortal in happiness and in love and in the light of heaven.