DAY OF REST
Yesterday we spent part of the afternoon at an arboretum. It was one of those great fall days, not too hot, not too cold, just enough leaves were down to rustle as you walked along, and the trees were beginning to show their red, yellow and orange colors. We saw trees we'd never seen before, and also walked through an herb garden and a rose garden. I had to hold my hands tightly together in the herb garden to prevent them from pinching off leaves and stems to smell. And, as always, in the rose garden I had to smell each variety--you know that the different varieties of roses have different fragrances, don't you? I wanted to be a hummingbird or a honeybee so I could bury myself even further into them.
All that got me to thinking about heaven. Imagine having eternity to see and learn about all of God's creation? (No. You're not going to have to sing in the choir 24/7.) I think I will take some time to learn more about trees--maybe even ALL of them in the new heaven and new earth. And then I'll learn about some of my favorite animals: cats, chipmunks, horses, lions, tigers and racoons. And then I think I'll travel. If there is something like Italy in the new earth, I'll spend about a hundred years there learning the language, the history, the culture. Norway, Scotland, France, too. And then Brazil, New Zealand, Madagascar, Vietnam, and Tanzania. That'll only cover about the first 1000 years.
What are you going to do in heaven?
Yesterday we spent part of the afternoon at an arboretum. It was one of those great fall days, not too hot, not too cold, just enough leaves were down to rustle as you walked along, and the trees were beginning to show their red, yellow and orange colors. We saw trees we'd never seen before, and also walked through an herb garden and a rose garden. I had to hold my hands tightly together in the herb garden to prevent them from pinching off leaves and stems to smell. And, as always, in the rose garden I had to smell each variety--you know that the different varieties of roses have different fragrances, don't you? I wanted to be a hummingbird or a honeybee so I could bury myself even further into them.
All that got me to thinking about heaven. Imagine having eternity to see and learn about all of God's creation? (No. You're not going to have to sing in the choir 24/7.) I think I will take some time to learn more about trees--maybe even ALL of them in the new heaven and new earth. And then I'll learn about some of my favorite animals: cats, chipmunks, horses, lions, tigers and racoons. And then I think I'll travel. If there is something like Italy in the new earth, I'll spend about a hundred years there learning the language, the history, the culture. Norway, Scotland, France, too. And then Brazil, New Zealand, Madagascar, Vietnam, and Tanzania. That'll only cover about the first 1000 years.
What are you going to do in heaven?
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