It is past two a.m. and I'm gnawing chunks off a french baguette that I bought earlier from Panera Bread. The only thing crossing my mind in the midst of chewing is how did I get here? Where did the last nineteen years of my life go that I'm now sitting around my dorm apartment in college? It boggles me every time I think about how fast a lifetime must pass you by, in the same token though, it excites me even more. There's something about comparing eighty years to eternity that makes me smile. I enjoy realizing that I will have nothing but time to spend in heaven once I get there.
My favorite verse in the Bible is Psalm 22:26 where it reads All who seek the Lord will praise him. Their hearts will rejoice in everlasting joy. I don't know of any words that ring so true to me all of the time. During moments of praise my heart is at its fullest in joy. This is a wonderful thing, this is the picture I have of heaven. I want nothing more but to sit around and praise the Lord for all of eternity. As it stands now, in my earthly body, I tend to have a difficult time staying in constant praise. Even when I'm at church or nights of worship controlling my mind is something I've never been able to do. It wanders and bounces from one things to the next, I reign it in and concentrate on something and then one word sparks a continuous tangent all over again. No matter how much I desire to devote an entire night to praising the worthiest of all kings I seem to always take a mental break every hour or so. In heaven that won't be so. Down on my knees I will finally get to praise with no taunting of my consciousness. This is the heaven I hope for, not one of people playing cards and high fiving. Yes, I feel the same way, high fiving sounds like a weird thing to be doing in heaven but seems completely appropriate. I can't wait, nor can I truly express in words how excited the thought of eternal praise makes me but I can say it's a grand and beautiful anticipation!
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