June 25, 2020 – Click here to listen
I have several very interested potential buyers for my home, but when it does sell, my plan to visit various locales around the country and world and rent for months at a time for the next couple of years has run into a serious roadblock. Covid-19 has most of the countries that I want to visit completely shut down. The few that are open require a mandatory 2-week quarantine.
Closed borders and no flights means I have to drive wherever I go and limit it to the United States. Ugh . . . I do not like driving as I have a bulging disc in my lower back. A 2500-mile trip out to the mountains in the west would be miserable.
I realize my problem is petty and insignificant when compared to the hardships imposed on most people. And yet it is important to me. I feel I must get the most out of the next few years while my health is good enough to allow it. Time stands still for no one and I detest being cooped up day after day after day. It is eating away my retirement years.
My wife and I went for a drive yesterday and we went to a beautiful stretch of land that has a lush canopy of trees that creates a tunnel effect. I was telling her that my vision of dying is that I will walk through such a canopy as I approach heaven’s gates. I told her I have had this vision for some time and the only thing different was that the beauty of my vision far exceeds anything I’ve ever seen or encountered. The colors were more vibrant and glowing and gorgeous flowers were on both sides of the road.
We talked about heaven for some length of time as we rode along. What would the road going through the canopy be like? I envisioned it as being an old country dirt road. She insisted it would be made of gold. I countered that heaven would have streets of gold, but this was leading into heaven. We talked of the precious stones that would decorate heaven and the beautiful music of an angelic choir. We wondered what the mansions would look like that Jesus spoke of when He said I go to prepare a place for you.
I love to think of heaven. I wonder if birds, butterflies, and animals will inhabit it – I think they will. I believe it will be a time of great learning that will never cease. I hope for something I can do for God such as managing one of His beautiful galaxies for Him. I anxiously await speaking to Jesus and asking many questions that have built up. I wonder if I will even remember them.
Covid-19 will not exist or mobs of angry people or folks whose life savings have been decimated. Best of all there will be no politicians or media stoking the flames of discontent in heaven. Just peace, joy, love, and happiness. I think the most important of these will be love.
I know that God loves me, and He knows that I love Him. I really look forward to spending “forever” with Him.
Revelation 21:4
“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”