JULY 27 "CELESTIAL NETHERLAND"

  An unknown author once said,

"As a boy, I thought of heaven as a city with domes, spires, and beautiful streets, inhabited by angels. Kind of surreal place, not one I envisioned my self living in for eternity.


By the time my little brother died, I thought of heaven much more and as before, but now… with one inhabitant, that I knew.


Then another died, and then some of my acquaintances, so in time I began to think of heaven as containing several people that I knew.


But it was not until one of my own little children died years later and as I healed of that pain and agony, than I began to think I had treasure in heaven myself. No longer a celestial Netherlands inhabited by Angels, but a home that housed many people I loved.


Afterward my mother went, who was a devout Christian, and yet another in Heaven.


By that time I had so many acquaintances in heaven, that I no more thought of Heaven as a city merely with streets of gold but as a place full of inhabitants, ones I personally knew and loved and missed.


Could I really see them again?


Now I know longer look at Heaven as simply a celestial netherland in the cosmos


But a real place!


I picked up the bible and so happened to come upon a verse I find quite interesting that I had never read or heard of in the Gospel of St. John, Jesus said, “In my Father's house are many mansions or rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you”.


A place…it is a place! It’s a place I am now determined to go, if not sooner, than later,


And be reacquainted with those that I personally know are there & waiting for me.




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