Have you ever been away from your family or loved ones for an extended period of time? Do you remember the longing for getting back home? Do you remember the joy of seeing, hearing and hugging your loved ones upon your return? I think that yearning for home is similar to the yearning that believers should have when they think of heaven. God gives us glimpses of what heaven will be like in this world. There have been a lot of those glimpses recently as we take the focus off of ourselves and our schedules and think about others and God. In CS Lewis's essay, The Weight of Glory, Lewis describes our longing for our eternal home. He writes, "..(it's like) the secret we cannot hide and cannot tell, though we desire to do both. We cannot tell it because it is a desire for something that has never actually appeared in our experience. We cannot hide it because our experience is constantly suggesting it." I hope you get a glimpse of heaven this week.
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