Is it because?

Have you ever felt like nothing here can satisfy you? Do you ever look around and see beautiful things and yet they seem empty? Have you ever felt restless inside like your in a train station just passing through? Boy I have and often do...Is it because we are "just passing through?" Is it because we are not meant for this earth but something beyond? I think so. Once you focus on Heaven there is nothing as beautiful here as there. All beauty here is still beautiful but it dulls in comparison with what awaits. Its like being a stranger in a foreign place, your not home. It might be lovely but its not home. That is how I feel right now, its hard. Your bound to this earth and yet your not of this earth. You must "do your time" before you can return home. On the other side of this I am thankful for the time here, if I wasn't here wouldn't have a chance at enjoying heaven. You can't go there if you don't exist here first! And there are some beautiful moments that happen here a foretaste of the hereafter...The smile of a child, the beauty of a sunset, the glory of the ocean, the song of bird first thing in the morning...All but a foretaste of good things to come. So I am thankful for each day, for the good and the bad as it may be...Its the small blessings that I enjoy the most, the love of my child, the wag of my dogs tail...The cardinal and mate that come each day at dawn and dusk to feed, the bloom of the hostia's white flowers, the way the wind blows through the leaves so high in the trees...These are the small things that ease my journey here. These things are a foretaste of what will be. So when your feeling lost or just blah that there isn't much beauty here remember it is there, look for it and remember its because your not meant for here but there!

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