My heaven on earth
That’s the name of the book I have written and which book is released on October 4 in 2004 for the first edition with my publisher ‘Kirjaboek’. On the face of the book is a water colour painting, painted by my husband, from the accompanying black and white photograph.
‘My Heaven on Earth’: the book shows as clear as daylight where I have found my heaven on earth. In the book I set out the way in which I have grown from a very believing Roman Catholic life to a life as an unbeliever. Or from a life with heaven as a prospect, to a life in which I have to seek my heaven on earth. My son Dirk has summarised my story clearly in the blurb on the back cover of the book.
My heaven on earth was made perfect by the birth of Dirk. He has completed our family. The photograph pictured was taken shortly before the delivery. A delivery is no fun, but if everything is going well, you do get something so splendid in return.
The conversion from a believing to an unbelieving life was really a delivery to me, painful and uncertain. For what did I know of life without God? In the end, everything that befell me was the best, to me it became a liberation: I have no need to accuse God and I have no need to reproach him on anythingthere is a lot of imperfection and a lot of sorrow on earth. From evolution it is certain that that there is a lot of imperfection and a lot of sorrow on earth.
My heaven on earth: seeking and finding?