heaven.

I am
so
so
incredibly
excited
for heaven. One of our lecture-ers yesterday talked about the big picture of the Bible as a redemptive story. Towards the end he mentioned heaven; even though we can't really even fathom what it will be like, we have a few ideas of what we will experience and what we can expect. He asked us to close our eyes (which I ignored) and listen to the words describing what heaven would be like. The starred ones really stuck out to me. He spoke slowly, allowing us to fully realize the weight of our hope in heaven:

no night
no dark*
no rust
no decay
no hurt
no racism
no police*
no paramedics
no sickness
no confession*
no running
no hiding
no barrier with God
no shame
no arrogance
no anger
no ulterior motives*
no reputations*
no shallow relationships*
no guilt*
no fear*
no heatache*
no need for faith*

we will have
all the time in the world
to experience and explore God-
never finishing,and never tiring.