"Heavenwood" is like Heaven's version of a spy camera, a corrupt form of the word "Hollywood." It represents the idea that everything we do in private is recorded by cameras in Heaven to be shown to us when we are ready.

The videos provide us with the chance to reach clarity and have closure with friends and family and then we have to forgive them or we can't move on.

It is up to the reader to infer the final destination but it definitely is a much better place.

I think there is a burning need for fiction about the afterlife because religions explore a dull path when showing Christians what will happen after death (ask people who fall asleep in church). The example of bad people ending up in a lake of fire either scares us into making shallow attempts at turning over a new leaf in order to avoid hell (more than go to Heaven) or pushes us to the edge of disbelief where denial and outright rebellion becomes our only option. The results of a long term study from the University of Chicago indicates that the number of Americans who believe in life after death has increased over the past 30 years despite the fact that spiritual habits like church attendance has significantly declined.

I am saying that the clergy alone is not going to do it. In fact, the reluctance of clergy to help Christians imagine the fullness of the afterlife as seen in preachers who convey life after death during sermons in rigid ways that fail to evoke longing and joy, is a wet blanket. Humans are creatures of imagination and as such, highly colorful images are needed to convey messages about eternity if anyone is going to believe.

Because movies appeal to people of all nations. We are drawn to the cinema because we need the reassuring magic that allows us to forget our lives and lose ourselves in the fiction or facts of other people’s. The reader is invited into a beautiful story only to be challenged with the complications that might arise if the cameras turned towards our own lives.