In the book Twenty Minutes of Reality Margaret Montague described her first day outdoors after a serious illness. It happened to be a gray March day marked by the dregs of winter: leafless trees, half-melted piles of snow. But this very ordinary scene was transformed in her eyes. She wrote of beholding “life for the first time in all its loveliness, its unspeakable joy, beauty and importance.” That’s the way it will be when we enter that heavenly Garden of Eden. Not only the beauties of the world, but also our capacity to absorb them will be greatly intensified. It will seem like that first day outdoors after a very long illness. And the first “twenty minutes of reality” will extend into a magical eternity. Do you enjoy experiencing new things? Learning? Creating? Some might imagine that life in a perfect environment won’t be very stimulating after a while. In time even the greatest vacations get tiring. We can’t imagine that there will be any great problems to solve or challenges to overcome in heaven. What will keep us going? But again, it’s our imagination, not life in paradise, that’s undersized. Note this statement by Christian author Ellen White: “There, immortal minds will contemplate with never failing delight the wonders of creative power, the mysteries of redeeming love. . . . Every faculty will be developed, every capacity increased. The acquirement of knowledge will not weary the mind or exhaust the energies. There the grandest enterprises may be carried forward, the loftiest aspirations reached, the highest ambitions realized; and still there will arise new heights to surmount, new wonders to admire, new truths to comprehend, fresh objects to call forth the powers of mind and soul and body. All the treasures of the universe will be open to the study of God’s redeemed.”—The Great Controversy (Nampa, Idaho; Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1950), page 677.