How To Achieve A Heaven On Earth: 101 Insightful essays from the world’s greatest thinkers, leaders and writers are edited by John E. Wade II.
According to John E. Wade, God intended everyone to live in a heaven on earth. There are ten elements needed to achieve this. Each chapter is divided into these elements with essays expanding on each.
Ten Elements to Achieve Heaven on Earth:
- Peace
- Security
- Freedom
- Democracies
- Prosperity – Julie Burtinshaw.
- Spiritual Harmony
- Racial Harmony
- Ecological Harmony
- Health
- Moral Purpose and Meaning
It’s easy to see that all ten elements are necessary because prosperity without world peace won’t feel heavenly, and ecological harmony without racial harmony would still divide people.
People Who Contributed Essays in How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth:
Some of the famous people who contributed their thoughts include: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Marianne Williamson, Al Gore, Ted Turner, Chris Rose, Tony Blair and more.
Essays on Marriage
Anne Teachworth shares her ten commandments for couples in her essay entitled “How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth in Marriage”.
As an example, here’s Anne’s eighth marriage commandment: “Stay open, trusting and pleasant in your communication, reliable in your promises, truthful in sharing your feelings, admitting your mistakes, and giving feedback without criticizing, accusing, intimidating, abusing, lying, insulting or betraying each other’s confidences or secrets.”
Essays from Recovering Addicts
Addicts share their stories about their struggles with addictions along with their inspirational recoveries and how that led them to help others. Todd Crandell founded Racing For Recovery after his thirteen year struggle with addictions and focuses on preventing substance abuse and increasing health.
How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth refers to the U.S. in the preface so that “our” and “we” seems more directed towards Americans. John E. Wade II promotes maintaining a strong military force in order to achieve world peace and combat genocide. Every essay that follows doesn’t necessarily reinforce this stance.
The intent is to achieve world peace, so a reader from any country would benefit from the essays. They are uplifting personal stories from all over the world that offer ideas to everyone about how they can contribute towards creating a heaven on earth in their own communities.
About John E. Wade II
John E. Wade is an author, anthropologist and retired accountant who founded the nonprofit organization Soldiers of Love. Half of all the proceeds from How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth (Pelican Publishing Company, 2010, ISBN: 978-1-58980-597-2) will go towards the charity. Soldiers of Love promote the ten elements to create a heaven on earth. In the past they’ve partnered with Desire Street Ministries, Junior Achievement and Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance.
"I will try to love and help create a heaven on earth." – Soldiers of Love Pledge
