Craftiness in Heaven

I just finished reading the book Desire: The Journey We Must Take To Find The Life God Offers by John Eldridge.  Chapter Nine spoke to me the most out of the whole book...it was called The Adventure Begins.  In this book, Eldridge talks about how Christians tend to squash their desire and just strive to be content, but in that we lose our ability to dream and to keep seeking more...more of God and want He wants of us.  In this chapter, Eldridge talked about how very creative our God is and how He put that same creativeness in us.  That we find the thing that God made us best at and do that...but then when we get to Heaven, we won't be sitting around all day doing nothing...we will be doing that creative thing that God made us to be good at--without limitations.  That sounds wonderful to me.  To know my purpose and be able to fulfill it with no limitations.  I have to say, that makes Heaven sound a little more delightful to me.  I wanna share a few quotes that I loved...
     "This is precisely what happens when God shares with mankind his own artistic capacity and then sets us down in a paradise of unlimited potential.  It is an act of creative invitation, like providing Money with a studio for the summer, stocked full of brushes and oils and empty canvases.  Or like giving Mozart full use of an orchestra and a concert hall for an autumn of composing..."
     "And it is this life, with all its joyful creativity and power and unending happiness, that he says he is going to share with us.  This is the 'joy of your master' that we are to be welcomed into."
     "God has created us and our gifts for a place of his choosing," says Guinness, "and we will only be ourselves when we are finally there."
     "What if you were given the freedom (the permission) and the power (all the resources necessary) to do exactly what you were always meant to do?"
     "The One who created you and set all those loves and gifts in your heart, the One who has shaped all your life experiences (including the ones that seem to make no sense), this God has prepared a place for you that is a more than perfect fit for all your gifts and quirks and personality traits--even those you don't know you have.  Christ is not joking when he says that we shall inherit the kingdom prepared for us and shall reign with him forever.  We will take the position for which we have been uniquely made and will rule as he does--meaning with creativity and power."
     "Each person will live out the passion of his heart, set there by the Creator from before the beginning of time."
     "The 'glorious freedom' of the children of God is the freedom of being all we were meant to be.  We won't be held back by anything anymore; no, we will finally hit our stride."

Highly recommend this book.  I will admit I didn't know what to do with all of it, but I really enjoyed a different viewpoint of Christianity and Desire and Heaven.