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You are and have been in my prayers.  Thank you for those copies of your works that you sent me.  I was caring for my mother when she passed away in December, and she kept asking when she could go.  What you will see and know when you enter into eternity, none of us can even begin to imagine.  St. Paul, who saw it and returned, declared that human language does not suffice to even begin to describe it.

People have this mistaken notion that Heaven is a static place, but our souls are elastic, meant by God to stretch toward infinite capacity.  So, for all eternity we will be increasing in love and knowledge, since we will never catch up to God ... but will continue to trend toward infinity ... provided we have not rejected Him, of course. During the Summer between my Junior and Senior years, those who of us taking AP Calculus the following year had to take a class called "Limits", and that class left a profound impression on me more than any other Math class.  We were dealing with the infinity symbol and concretely experienced how we can never actually arrive at infinity, since at every step there's another, then another, etc.  So we expressed every equation as "trending toward infinity".  But you can never actually get there.

That's why the human soul can never be satisfied with any finite goods, since we get bored with it and restless for more, since the soul always has capacity for more.  People experience this when they buy a new car or a new house, that it's amazing at first, but then over time you get used to it and it "gets old" and you're bored.  This is why some rich people will buy 100 cars.  But they could buy a thousand and eventually they would get to know them all and be bored.  Or it's why they have a dozen homes, each a mansion.  Even though it will take longer, you will eventually know and experience everything there is to know about them all ... and then get bored.  I imagine that those mansions Our Lord spoke of in Heaven will constantly be renewing and reconfiguring themselves, so that it will seem as though every morning you're "waking up", as it were, to a brand new mansion, with this one being on an ocean front, the next in the mountains, the woods, snowy, rainy, wet, sunny ... and not limited even by these ordinary concepts.  Just go through some online home listings and pick those that are over a million dollars and just go from one to the next, looking at all the pictures .... and imagine that every time you started to get bored with one, you'd be able to switch to another.  Or find pictures of different places in the world.  That's akin to how it would feel.

So, there's a sense in which I disagree with St. Augustine in his characterization of 'resting" in God, since rest can imply a static condition.  What's meant by rest there is that the soul will never feel unsatisfied or lacking anything, but that's because as soon as the soul has had its fill, God gives more, and stretches its capacity.  So, as I said, the soul is elastic, and while always filled to 100% capacity, its capacity will be stretched.  Constantly.  For all eternity.  Think of it like a water balloon.  As soon as it fills to capacity, it will stretch forever ... and this will never stop, since we can never catch up to God. So this "resting" in God will be a dynamic state, lasting forever

You will quickly be reassured that you were right about geocentric earth, but will be surprised to see that we FLERFers were right.  I'd place a friendly wager on it, and perhaps God will permit you to report back.  If you can do so, I'll wager 10 Mass intentions on it.  In either case, whether I'm right or wrong ... let me know somehow and you'll have 10 Masses coming in your direction.