Personal Narrative: The United Empire Of Heavenly Cuisine

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Leaping off of the bottomless cloudy hot-air-balloon, I am in a continual state of shock. It’s like my body is unable to function in a pure environment. Slowly walking over to the sea of glass, I gaze at the reflection in the rippled waters and then gasp. In an instant, I am changed. I am pure, and every part of me is healthy. Almost like my being is shouting out praises to God. Overflowing beyond it’s capacity with worries about the wreckage I had been facing before the intense flash of light that redeemed me, I had been broken. Now my mind and being is whole, in Jesus. I feel like a new person, or perhaps the same one, only uncorrupted by the entirety of sin and evil passions that had turned what was meant to be perfection into a sin-encrusted …show more content…

Our tour guide, an extremely hot angel with an exotic name that I cannot spell, informs us that this destination will appeal to those of us that “had an unending desire to indulge in edible delights in our earthly state”. Those words paint a picture of me down to the last drop! Excitement is so real all around me, it’s almost tangible, and I suddenly realize why Jesus chose this for the first destination. My mind wanders to what he laughingly described it as : a place where you can catch up on never eating any good food while we were stuck. And dear me, no one in all of creation has EVER beholden this mind-boggling assortment of food before this day. A multitude of cuisine and foodstuffs simply hover in the air for miles upon miles. Walking up to a mouthwatering assortment of muffins, I sink my teeth into one a have a double-take. It makes all the memories of my personal favorites from Earth turn sour. Abruptly, a modest smile expands across my face. My little gerbil that I affectionately called ‘Muffin’ on earth is sweetly looking up at me. Would you have ever guessed that your furry companions were to accompany you to Heaven? For the remainder of the time, my friends and I fangirl over our favorite cooking sensations from

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