Can Plants Go to Heaven? Why Questions Matter

Keywords

curiosity, questioning, discovery

Abstract

This weekend I was driving my daughter Rachel to gymnastics. As we drove between fields of pumpkins ripening for the welcomed onslaught of autumn with its vivid colors, cool breezes, and sapphire skies, Rachel asked a question.

Can plants go to heaven?

There is so much I find instructive and fascinating by Rachel’s question. I see opportunities to encourage, support, improve, and enhance thinking, questioning, learning, experimentation, discovery and ultimately the expanding joy of being more like God who knows all things.

When I woke up on Saturday morning, I didn’t have some spiritual prompting that I should do a thorough review of revelation ancient and modern to be prepared for a question like this.

How many of you out there get questions like this, out of the blue, from your kids or friends, or others who are unafraid to be curious and experience the joy of discovery? How many of you receive random, unexpected, yet thoughtful, and interesting questions that do not have ready, easy answers?

Original Publication Citation

Can Plants Go to Heaven? Why Questions Matter, September 9, 2019. (Republished on LDS Living September 10, 2019. Translated and published in Spanish at MásFe on September 19, 2019.)

Document Type

Other

Publication Date

2019

Language

English

College

Marriott School of Business

Department

Marketing

University Standing at Time of Publication

Associate Professor

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