So I go to my sunday school today and the topic is "If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?" Now I'm a big fan of Inside the Actors Studio and I knew the topic before I arrived, so I studied the actors' responses to the Bernard Pivot survey that James Lipton asks them each week. They're posted on the website.

Most of the actors questioned just said something boring, like "Welcome" or "Glad to see you." I liked Tom Hanks' response best..."ah, ah, ah. Back you go." That was kind of like what I would say.

But after giving it more thought, I said that god would say to me "See, you made it to 100 years old and you finished reading all the books on your bookshelves. Welcome to my library."

A friend in the class said that he would like to envision more of a "library of people," rather than a library of books. I like that idea too.

It was interesting though. The atheists in the group had a real problem with the question and kept coming up with things that they wanted to say to god, not so much hearing what god had to say to them.