Not if, but when
The Lutheran perspective on the faith is known for its dialogue between "being set free from" and "being set free for."
After a very nice trip to my hometown, I find myself reflecting on that dialog in relationship to home. It seems to me that very often we are not set free for home until we are set free from it--free from our need for home to validate us, our need for home to be perfect, our need for home to constantly cradle us, our need for home to protect us. We aren't set free for home until we are set free from home's control of us, its tendency to create resentment within us because we want to be free of its power over us. And when we get free from its power over us, then we are set free for home. Admittedly, that takes time. So parents and grandparents, long for patience for yourselves. I think Richard Rohr is on to something when he says that salvation is not a matter of if, but when. Eventually, we come home. By the way, heaven is a word that many Christians use to describe that arrival.