All the Way

I was reading from Disciplines devotional book this morning. J Stephen Lang wrote:

But the Bible assures us that heaven isn't just "later." Life lived in fellowship with God means that heaven has already begun. All the way to heaven is heaven.

That last line was the last line of the devotional, and it stopped me cold. I believe and tell people that the kingdom is here and not yet, but I've never seen it written just that way. "All the way to heaven is heaven."

Isn't that a great and reassuring comment?

Do you ever feel that way? Are there moments in life when it feels like heaven? When you can see God so closely -- see his work so clearly -- that you know that we live all the way to heaven in heaven?