C.S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity that "Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, something that cannot be had in this world."  I feel as if we spend our whole lives longing.  We long to be grown up, we long to know where we are headed, we long to be in love, we long to experience adventure, success, and excitement in life.  For me personally, I have always longed to live in another country, to somehow "give something of my small self to the entirety of the world" (thank you Mary Oliver), but in truth, all that we grasp at somehow evades us in reality.  Somehow we are left disappointed and off to find fulfillment in the next new thing.  Even in the times I am most fulfilled by God's love, I still can feel a strong sense that there is more.  

It is in times when I look at the world in its shining, wondrous brilliance, like when the sun is at its strongest or when the living world is alive and rejoicing, that I get a glimpse of what it is we were all made for and have been missing out on.  There is a place where myriads of angels get to experience the full measure of the glory of God and creation gets to join with it.  (How generous He is that He lets us experience a bit of His presence when He could just keep to Himself!)  God does promise that He will make His sons perfect.  He has and will redeem this world.  That is why I can sing, "Beholding your beauty is all that I long for.  To worship you, Jesus, is my soul's desire."

Thank you to my intellectual superiors who have been able to put into words this stirring of my spirit, based on an innate knowledge of heaven and the response of pure adoration and praise.