Heaven is a place near Earth.

I had a group of very small children today. It was a nursery school, so they were between 3 and 5 years old. They were a little too excited about the laser pointer, but they settled down after a little while.

I spend much of my time with this age group talking about how different the moon and the planets are from the Earth. We started with the moon. After talking about a couple lunar features, I asked...

"Could we live on the moon?"

"NO!" They all cheerily announced.

"Why not?" I asked.

I got very quiet. They just sat there. I was about the put them out of their misery when a small girl timidly suggested, "Because God lives there...?"

You never know what a kid this age is going to come out with. I figured I would investigate further...

"God lives on the moon...?" I asked her.

"I think so," she told me.

"So why couldn't we live there, too?" I asked.

"He's a big man," she told me.


"Oooh." I let it go at that.