photo: Anthony Furgison/Dreamstime.com
This is the last Five Minute Friday of the year! Here’s a short review of the rules: Write for minutes. Link to Gypsy Mama’s Five Minute Friday page. Last, and most important, stop by the person ahead of you and leave them an encouraging message. You can do that anywhere else you want, just be sure that person gets one!
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The wonder of a newborn just after she is born.
Sometimes it takes her awhile to stop screaming at the lights and cold.
Others, she is calm and peaceful and just looks around at this big new world!
Is that what heaven will be like?
Will we open our eyes in this unimaginably beautiful place
and unlike our arrival on earth,
Realize how warm and comfortable it is.
How much we feel “at home” for the first time…ever?
How complete and whole we will feel.
All aches, pains and griefs will be gone…forever!
How delightfully fresh the air will be.
How unimaginable the colors?
How perfectly beautiful the music, yet with immense variety.
How peaceful (in a good way)
How light and open?
How surrounded we will be by beauty of all kinds
In a world teeming with creativity and joy unexpressible?
Most of all, how full this world will be of Jesus?
His presence, His glory, His worship, His love?
I’m becoming so cynical these days…
When I don’t check myself.
Here on earth I keep getting the feeling that
“I’ve been there, done that.”
There isn’t the wonder I had as a child
Who was seeing her world for the first timel
It won’t be like that in heaven.
I can’t imagine it beyond a certain point.
But I’m sure we will be full of wonder!
STOP
I got carried away and forgot to turn on the timer! This was close to 5 minutes.
photo: © Anthony Furgison | Dreamstime.com
thanks D. have been working on it most of the day. still have a lot of tweaking to do on it and need a little more variety in the colors. it’s a lot more user friendly than thesis was…so far.
I like your new theme. Very easy to read.
thanks d:)
My son, Alex, age 9, has been full of questions about heaven lately. The discussions have been sweet, innocent and thought provoking. The one thing we settle on is that heaven’s WONDER will be unspeakable:))
i guess that is why heaven came to my mind when i thought of wonder…heaven and a newborn:) hope you have a great christmas season stefanie:)
We will be so full of Wonder when we arrive Home, I can’t even begin to imagine it!! Lovely thoughts on wonder!
thanks for your comments sharen:) i saw your beautiful son on your blog. there is nothing more exciting as that first baby! congratulations. judging from some of your terminology, i’m guessing you are british? the nappies gave you away:)
thanks for stopping by Malisa. i enjoyed my visit to your blog as well:)
Martha, I wrote about the wonder of a baby being born on my FMF post! I sometimes find myself being cynical too and hope that I can keep that wonder that is so evident when I slow down and take the time to care/look for it. Thank you for sharing your writing today!
thanks barbie:) my dad died very suddenly just after thanksgiving when i was in my twenties with 2 small children. (he was 54) christmas was about the time it was all sinking in that year…both his perspective and mine! it was a huge loss…he had not been sick and died of a heart attack…instantly. no good-byes! Ugh!
Thank you for this amazingly beautiful glimpse into your vision of heaven!