8:00 am I feel a cold nose on my arm signaling me it's time to get up to go outside. After sleepily deciding who will take the anxious dogs out to tinkle, I try to find something warm to wear over my pjs and stumble out into the crisp Colorado morning. This is the scene I wake up to as I draw my first fresh breath of mountain air for the day.
After nine months of living here we still find ourselves captivated by the beauty designed especially for us by our Creator. I often find myself wondering about the garden of Eden. This fallen world we live in is flawed since the first bite of forbidden fruit and cursed by the One who set it all in motion. However, He still chose to reflect His glory in it. If His infinitely unfathomable glory can be reflected in such an imperfect world, how much more glorious will be the place He has perfected for us? How many different kinds of the most beautiful fragrant flowers is He cultivating for us in Heaven? What breathtaking colors will we behold in the heavenly sky? Can we even imagine the intense purity of the crystal sea? As you go about your daily life... the mundane busyness we create around us... stop to contemplate what you were really created for. If God, our Father, in His indescribable goodness gave us all of this in our fallen state, how much more will He reveal when we are resurrected with Him?
"And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. There shall be no night there: they need no lamp nor light f the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever." Revelation 22:1-5
