Life is exciting, and challenging, and full of adventure. But it seems like my heart always longs for more. I always just think I can go deeper, there's something else great and more wonderful that I've met to find. Then I remember it's not that I haven't found it, it's what I won't find it this side of heaven. We get to experience a taste of what is to come, God gives us a small whiff of fellowship but it won't be complete here. This feeling reminds me of what C.S. Lewis talks about in "Weight of Glory" where we find beauty:
"The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust in them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things- the beauty, the memory of our own past- are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself; they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not yet found, the echo of the tune we have not yet heard, news from a country we have never yet visited."
Another Lewis quote from Mere Christianity: "Creatures are not born with desire unless satisfaction for those desires exist. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing."
We were made for that home, we will be complete and unified forever. It's hard for me to comprehend how big the world is and traveling overseas always sends a burst of liberation up my spine and through my spirit. This sense of freedom is in full force when I give up and realize I'm not in control, that this planet will continue to spin without me...that there's something more important than the life I live. Though I don't always understand this truth, each day provides experiences that continue to give meaning and beauty to our lives.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” (Mark Twain)
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