Aug
25
Heaven - Vacation with Toddlers
Filed Under Christian Living, Family, Worship
I just returned from a few days in sunny FL with my family. It was an excellent time away with Hallie, the boys, and some of my extended family. Before I leave my vacation memories to sit and gather dust in the not so far reaches of my cranium, I wanted to offer up one thought on vacationing, heaven, and my children.
I think everyone harbors some fleeting thought that vacationing is a good deal like heaven. It is a release from all of our geographically tied worries. It is a time to leave behind our lives and go somewhere to do … nothing. But should we really equate “rest” with “doing nothing”? Or, on an even deeper level, should we equate “heaven” with “doing nothing”. Despite the pictures that adorn our tissue boxes with angels on clouds holding harps I think heaven is going to be the satisfying, strenous worship of God. Rest is going to be doing what we were created to do rather than doing nothing at all. Rest is going to be the active and lively worhsip of Jesus Christ. Where does my family enter into all of this? Well, vacationing with my three youngsters is a good deal like satisfying, strenous work. There was very little of the past four days where I sat still and did nothing. There, however, was much in the past four days that involved sand castles, jumping over waves, and tucking little ones into bed. In that I realized that I was being what I was made to be: a father. In that I got a glimpse of heaven and how it is a good deal like vacationing with toddlers. Because in both, we find the freedom to be actively and passionately what we were made to be.
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