Being duly inspired by several of my good friends, I shall try my hand at blogging!! I so enjoy reading the blogs of several of my dear friends from college (Kimberly, Sonja, Jenny).
I have been thinking a lot in this new year about heaven and how this life is truly only the dress rehearsal, only the title page to the real story. My dad bought a book for Anson called "Pip and the Edge of Heaven". The concepts introduced by that book have set me to thinking. The plot is basically a little boy who is learning about life and applying that to what he thinks heaven might be like.
"Pip asked his mother, 'Mother, is heaven invisible?' But, before she could answer, Pip said, 'I think that maybe heaven is hidden behind the things that we can see. Maybe, sometimes, when we look very carefully at things, we can just see heaven shining through....Maybe, here, we are really camping, but heaven will be home....God must be where people love God...And God must be where there are people God loves. And God loves everyone, so God must be everywhere...everywhere must touch the edge of heaven.'"
Without being morose, I want to make my focus for this year on what really will matter into eternity. Sometimes I get caught up in and frustrated by events that really won't matter in 100 years; I want to remember that we are living on the "edge of heaven."
5 comments:
This life is indeed only the title page or, at most, the introduction. Eternity is all the rest. Only the eternal or what affects the eternal really matters.
"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Love,
Mom and Dad
YAY...so happy about this!!
Love the title and your 1st blog brought tears to my eyes...Love Ya!
(PS..uploading pics is REALLY easy..if I can do it, you definately can!)
Oh Susanna...this is so neat. Really great thoughts...and it will be nice to stay better connected this way!
Wow! You blessed me, my friend. What a beautiful concept. So glad to have you join the world of blogging. I'm a bit in and out of it right now. But I'm glad to know you're here! Love ya!
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Ozymandias by Percy Shelley
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