I was reminded yesterday of the limits of technology. I had classes and meetings all day and late into the evening and all of it was on Zoom, an app that allows video of everyone on screen together. It works great and you can see everyone and talk, teach and meet live. However, by 6:30 last night I was longing for a real human being, a flesh and blood, fully realized human presence in my life. By grace I had my lover and our youngest here with me. But that is not what I realized. In the last several weeks God has reaffirmed in me the need for real, living, presence. Not just human presence but trees, dogs, birds singing, ivy growing, irises dark with colored life, green moss, earth smelling like earth, rivers flowing, rain, sunshine, and my lover at 98.6°. We are so made three-dimensionally alive as is our world and all that makes it the earth and it is all free, free, free. Oh, what awaits us when we read that this whole world is broken and even groans to be fully realized and yet is so meaningfully helpful to our well-being. Someday we will look back on our life here and realize that it was more akin to a Zoom life than real life and we will turn once more toward Him and sing, “Halleluiah, Halleluiah, Praise You Almighty, Maker of our new heavens and earth. I Can Only Imagine.
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| Someday even Fair Haven will be but a Zoom of our eternal Haven. |
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