The longing. What is this profoundness, this eternity we know? The Bible says “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart;” I will confess beauty and eternity go hand in hand, the latter being the ultimate realization of the former but along with that confession comes this one; I know neither. But it seems beauty gives us the inkling of eternity. The same Bible says everything now is cursed, so all there is exists in a fallen state, not complete, not whole, and I also fallen so that eternity cannot be had in my current form. I am having a long season of sitting quietly and being fully conscious of my body. I once read a book titled “You Gotta Keep Dancing” which made the case that only in pain are we fully aware of ourselves, pain alone allows us to feel ourselves. I looked out over the earth from Fair Haven and said to my lover, “I need God’s beauty to wash over me.”
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