And when the earth fades…

I was in church with Jen yesterday when they started singing this song and immediately we glanced at each other and smiled. It is one of the songs we sang when we were in the choir and whenever I hear this song, this stanza makes time stop for a few minutes. Nothing that is happening around seems to register as I am suddenly transported to a moment between two worlds. That moment when the earth fades, you wonder how it will be… you wonder what comes next. There are a number of books we can read, stuff we can research to try to know what happens after we breathe our last breath… but I don’t think anything can prepare us for the final event. It will be good, of course, no doubt there… life gets transformed, but still, that point, that exact moment when the earth fades… it’s just too big to put into words, it always leaves me pondering, hoping that it will be as beautiful as my human mind imagines it to be. But intuitively you know it is going to be much more… that’s what He has been doing anyway, giving me much more than I could dream up for myself.