Dec 23, 2025 · 20 min · 10 segments
See the text and points for meditation: https://www.wmreview.org/p/total-consecration-day-33 Heaven – The Court of the King which awaits us This is what Christ has won for us – and where he and his…
We naturally long for it more than a servant longeth for the shade, or the hireling looketh for the end of his work.
The vision of our eternal home, caught by the light of faith, encourages us in our trials, strengthens us in our toilsome journey, and inspires us with ever higher and greater resolves, just as the sight of his native hills seen now and then at the turning of the road fills the weary traveller with new life.
It means untroubled peace and complete happiness and endless life.
What eye hath not seen, what ear hath not heard, what hath not entered into the heart of man, all these things God hath prepared for them that love him.
we may indeed picture to ourselves heaven as a most delightful place, God's eternal garden, as the Church calls it in her prayers for the commendation of a departing soul, where our eyes will rest on ever-new scenes of everlasting beauty, our ears delighted with the most mellifluous melodies, our imaginations filled with noble and joy-giving images, and our bodies, agile, lightsome, and wholly obedient to the soul, will fly unhampered across the immense universe.
Heaven, after the final resurrection, will be all that and exceedingly more, and better than we can ever fancy.
And what happiness would it mean for us when we remember that the sound of a violin string touched by an angel's hand caused Saint Francis of Assisi, when wracked by pain, to fall into an ecstasy of love? And yet not in these delights does the happiness of heaven consist.
We naturally long for it more than a servant longeth for the shade, or the hireling looketh for the end of his work.
The vision of our eternal home, caught by the light of faith, encourages us in our trials, strengthens us in our toilsome journey, and inspires us with ever higher and greater resolves, just as the sight of his native hills seen now and then at the turning of the road fills the weary traveller with new life.
It means untroubled peace and complete happiness and endless life.
What eye hath not seen, what ear hath not heard, what hath not entered into the heart of man, all these things God hath prepared for them that love him.
we may indeed picture to ourselves heaven as a most delightful place, God's eternal garden, as the Church calls it in her prayers for the commendation of a departing soul, where our eyes will rest on ever-new scenes of everlasting beauty, our ears delighted with the most mellifluous melodies, our imaginations filled with noble and joy-giving images, and our bodies, agile, lightsome, and wholly obedient to the soul, will fly unhampered across the immense universe.
Heaven, after the final resurrection, will be all that and exceedingly more, and better than we can ever fancy.
And what happiness would it mean for us when we remember that the sound of a violin string touched by an angel's hand caused Saint Francis of Assisi, when wracked by pain, to fall into an ecstasy of love? And yet not in these delights does the happiness of heaven consist.
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