There’s = something great and vast about Life that eludes me.  Often we try to pierce the = veil of this reality with feelings and emotions that are thrust out of our soul like = spears into the night in an attempt to touch that ethereal something that = barely escapes the fingertips of our soul. 

We call it searching = for Truth, but the concept is always so nebulous.  We try to use words to wrap = something tangible around those feelings and paint them into something that we can = grasp, but there are some things that can never be roped into anything rock = solid.  There’s more to Life than we can ever understand.

We think we know, but = it is all beyond our comprehension.  And much bigger than we can = imagine.  We all have a concept of what God is, how big He is, and where He resides, but it is = only the translucent glimmers of our soul.  Somewhere, way up there, is = God.  We feel that If we could just slice into the fabric of Reality with a knife, we = would see Him sitting on His throne surrounded by all those angels.  But = we don’t have anything sharp enough.

So we try to bring it = all into focus with words, vaguely aware of the impotency of our efforts.  = Still we try, because somewhere down deep inside us is an urgency that knows that = Eternity is waiting for us at the end of our lives.  Somewhere on the other = side of that dark door of death our ultimate destiny awaits us, silently, patiently, = and immovable.  We can feel it, but we can’t quite put our finger = on it.  We try to grasp it, but our fingers come back empty.

Wasn’t it = Thoreau who said, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation”?  Life = in this reality is absorbing, but transient.  Our time seems to be spent in = a sea of long pauses that are filled up with work or amusement, while we wait for = those intermittent islands of something truly meaningful.  Not that love, = charity, fun or any of the other things of life that we value are vain, but every = once in a while, we are able to reach through that veil and we touch = something eternal.  Sometimes, it is just for a moment, but it is enough to = realize that we had a fleeting grasp on something that transcends this = world.

A friend of mine said = that there’s more to God than what we want.  Just as God is = greater than what we can want, so life is much more than what we see with our = eyes.   I want to finish the course of my life knowing that I have at least touched some = islands of true reality, and not gone through a lifetime numb to my eternal = destiny.  If God is true, then being able to touch the Throne of God is the only = real thing that we can do.  To dismiss that as a secondary interest is = to miss the meaning of Life.

We pass through the = road of Life only once, and then the door of Death slams shut.  Reach through = the veil and go through life with your fingers grasped around the hand of = God.

Dalen Garris
dale@revivalfire.org
Waxahachie, TX

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