I am thinking tonight. We just watched the movie Tuck Everlasting as a family this evening. If I had known it was not really a child's movie, then I would not have picked it out at the library, but I am very glad that I did. The movie is the reason I'm thinking. It comes at a good time in my life. A time when I look in the mirror and see some of the first effects of age and time. I now experience my first feelings of sadness that things are changing and that I am growing older. This movie explore the fallacies of the would-be goodness of eternal life on this earth. It's so easy to think something like, "If only we could live forever" or "if only my sweet children didn't have to grow up" or "I wish it could just always stay this good--like it is right now."
On a daily basis, I nurse my precious baby and dress him in his warm pajamas and give him his favorite blankie to snuggle and tuck him in bed. I have the amazing privilege of still being allowed to hold my oldest boy. He will crawl into my lap and let me put my head on his, or he'll place his head in my lap or even still engage in a game of pat-a-cake. I put my arm around my adorable redheaded boy and then I scratch his back and tickle him until he's laughing and wiggling and kicking. I listen over and over and over and over to my husband tell me how beautiful I am and how grateful he is for me and how I am the best wife and mother in the world. It's so easy to think, "Does it get better than this?" Honestly, life this side of heaven probably does not.
The most astounding thing is that in reality--the reality of the supernatural world that we cannot see but that we know by faith--it does get better. Life after this life is more blissful and rewarding and fulfilling than anything we could ever experience on this earth or even dream of in our finite minds. We will one day stand before our Maker and then bow before Him and spend all of the rest of eternity singing His worth and beauty and majesty and sovereignty and strength and wisdom and power and on and on and on. We cannot conceive of it. I don't think it's humanly possible. But it is true. And that will be the good life....life as good as it gets.
"I have come that they might have life, and have it more abundantly...." --Jesus.
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FYI.. a good laugh.... I got hit right between the eyes today with a basketball... I had told the class to line up, and a boy threw just one more toward the basket. It rebounded right at me,,, I was 2 to 3 feet from the backboard and never even saw the ball coming... It was a perfect shot. I nearly blacked out,,, saw stars... held on, took a deep breath... got the class inside and started a spelling bee. In a minute, a boy said,,, Mrs. Hamilton pull your glasses down... I was bleeding between the eyes where the bar between lenses had cut the bridge of my nose.!!! Oh, retirement,,,.... come quickly, so I can live near my grandchildren!!!!!!
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