I Want To Go To Toy Heaven!

By Binkles

When I die, I want to go to Toy Heaven!

I don’t suppose you know where Toy Heaven is. Well, actually, to tell you the truth, nor I do! I don’t even know if there is really any such place! But you never know, it just might exist! And if it doesn’t , I hope I can request God to create it. After all, God made the astoundingly vast universe so easily and so maybe it would be very easy for Him to bring a little Toy Heaven into being if it isn’t already there.

I’ve read a bit in different books about different ideas of Heaven and Hell and who is said might go to which of these two places after they die. I’ve also read about other ideas about what happens to people after they breathe their last. Now, I really don’t know which of these various theories is true. I have no idea at all!

There are some things in this regard that I am less unsure of, though. For instance, intuitively, I feel that the ‘real me’ can never die. ‘My’ body will definitely die one day, but the ‘real me’ (call it the ‘soul’ or what you will) will live on forever. I can’t conclusively prove this, but this is what I feel deep down inside.

Where the soul goes after the death of the body that it had temporarily inhabited while on Earth and what happens to and with it thereafter I have absolutely no idea. Different traditions have their own theories, and I cannot say which of these (if any) is true. So, I really have no option but to wait till I die to find out. These issues must remain an unsolved mystery as long as I am alive in this body. But one thing I am sure of: that I will leave this body one day or the other. That is certain. In fact, probably the only thing that I know with absolute certainty about the future is that I will have to depart from this body—and from this world—one day or the other.

When I do finally drop the physical body that I presently inhabit, I hope God whisks me away to a world where I could spend the rest of eternity. I like to think of it as Toy Heaven. This realm would be very similar to the settings of many of the storybooks that I so delighted in as a child that my mother would get for us. It would be very much like the English countryside (but minus the English weather!) There’d be rolling meadows, with wooly sheep munching on thick clumps of grass and baby horses gently galloping about in the soft morning sun. There’d be low, green hills that stretch as far as the eye can see, dotted with pretty little lakes and patches of pine forest. There’d be just a few cottages around, tastefully designed, each with a little garden in front and a vegetable patch at the back, with lots of flowering plants and fruit trees. Of course there’d be no cars and buses at all. We’d walk or use our wings or fly on a magic carpet.

There’d be no grim and gruff adults in Toy Heaven: They could be placed elsewhere. Toy Heaven would be inhabited by little children, quite a many fairies, a couple of elves and lots and lots of friendly and very happy animals, all young and never-to-grow up-or-old. There’d be plenty of hens and geese, donkeys and pigs, squirrels and mice, puppies and kittens and numerous animals like that, who will all get along famously. There’d also be animals like lions and gorillas and baboons, but they’d be harmless, genial and jovial and will promise to behave themselves. There’ll even be teddy bears that talk, skittles that skip and goldfish that giggle. Together, we’d do many fun things. We’d sit in the sun and sing songs and spin tops and play hide-and-seek, hopscotch and games like that. We’d visit each other’s cottages for coffee with hot-cross buns and buttery scones, or for chocolate cake for a midnight snack. We’d go to the circus every now and then, or to a village fair. Once in a while, a flying ‘wishing chair’ would take us up a magic faraway tree, to distant enchanted lands.

Oh, Toy Heaven would very much like what Enid Blyton—my favourite children’s story writer—might have imagined it to be!

If God does bless me with Heaven after I die—I don’t know if He will, but I hope He does—I do hope it is to Toy Heaven that He will send me!