City of Blinding Lights

The kids are both so into U2's "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" album, they can practically sing along and know all their favourite song titles.

Yesterday, Matthew was talking about the sun and saying that it was the brightest thing, and I casually mentioned that God is even brighter than the sun. He immediately extrapolated that to saying something about heaven being like the "City of Blinding Lights" (one of the songs in that U2 album), that it'll be so bright we'll become blind there.

I clarified that heaven isn't likely to be blindingly bright just because God is there, because our bodies will be special by then and we can see Him. This must not have gelled with his current concept of heaven, which is that it's a place one gets to after death, because he came back with, "But when we get to heaven, we'll just be all bones right?"

Took me a bit of further explaining to get across the concept of the resurrected body...