Is it Just Me or Do You Feel It Too?

Is is just me or is this world seeming darker and more wearysome than ever before? Can't explain it but it just seems to be getting heavier and heavier almost as if like a vacuum cleaner that has taken up too much dirt and now is too heavy to move. Whats up? Is it truly as some knowledgeable friends have said that we are in the end times? I think we are and yet what does that mean? I think it means not exactly as we think it might. End times in God's time could mean a thousand years or just a few short ones...Only He knows that. And yet it does seem that we are indeed in that time frame however long or short it may be. Do I feel discouraged about it? No. Sometimes I get a little nervous, true, who wouldn't? And yet why fear? If we are virtuous people who have our sites on home then it shouldn't matter. We are all going to die one day, somehow. If we don't die of old age then maybe young in a car accident or from illness. Still others will face death at the hand of another person, it is all the same in the end. We will all die one day and what really matters is where do we go from there? How we get there, well that can scare some people true but we must trust the One who loves us immensely, put our hope in Him and then no matter how when we are reunited with Him the fear will all be a distant memory. Think in that! Be at peace. This world is NOT home and the heavier it gets the less it feels like home to me. We must surely seek out the remaining beauty here and enjoy it yes of course we must! However we must focus on the greater and permanent beauty of heaven! That place where death, illness, fear, hunger, pain all have no place or memory...It will be a wonderful place of great respite. Rest for the weary (that includes me), health for those who have suffered here with long illness or other physical suffering, they will be made whole! Tears will be dried and laughter will take their place! Broken hearts will be made whole. All will be well. Fear will be replaced with love and security, hunger will be unknown, nothing but good things for those who suffered here..Oh if we can only hang on...

So my friend, be at peace, hang on to your hope for heaven! We will all be there sooner than we realize, even if we live to be old it will still come sooner than expected, wait and see!

Peace to you and yours,
GG