An Australian mother shared that her five-year-old son broke his arm trying to “fly” off the top of his brother’s cot. The mother scooped him up to cuddle and asked him, “What’s wrong?” He replied, “Mum, when am I going to get my wings back?” When she told him that as a human he wouldn’t have wings, but could fly kites and planes, and so on, he burst into tears and wailed, “I want them right now!” After a good cry, he suddenly stopped and said, “That’s okay, Mum, I remember God told me I could have them when I returned after this assignment.” The fact the boy used the word “assignment” to describe his life is remarkable. What can Creator tell us about the reality behind what this boy revealed?

As his seemingly precocious awareness reflects, he was recounting an actual conversation with Creator, and putting it into a framework that is understandable to a five-year-old, thinking of flying as needing wings, because he was desiring to do so and had had a tutorial about flight with respect to birds in nature and technological aircraft of human design and manufacture. And so, recalling he could fly readily prior to his incarnation and missing that ability greatly, he was recalling the preparation done for him in getting him ready to journey to the earth plane and join his new body, and lamenting what this would cost him in terms of his normal capabilities. Light beings can travel wherever they wish, and quite quickly, they can cruise as though soaring in flight to slowly survey their surroundings, and so on. It is directed through thought alone and does not require mechanical actions of a body, let alone technology. So this description should not be taken as meaning, "People have wings in heaven," only that as light beings they have remarkable means of locomotion that greatly transcend human capability, and this itself is quite profound and enjoyable also.