31 Days of Hope - Day 12

"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, 

and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever." 

 Psalm 23:6

I honestly think about heaven much more now that the man I loved more than life itself for ten years is there. Sometimes I wish it would have come more naturally before then, but the busy days in the past of diapers and feedings didn't gravitate themselves to those kinds of thoughts on their own very often.

My days are busier now, and yet a lot slower too. I have a lot more time to think, and I'm grateful that my mind does gravitate more toward heaven and can choose to surpass the anxiety of living life here on this earth and to remember there's more than this.

All the pain will be gone. All the loss will be gone. All the sickness.... gone. And anything else hard that comes with living in this fallen world... gone. What a comfort. What a reason to hope.

When life gets hard, we can remember this truth.  His goodness and mercy will be with us as we walk through hard days, and that alone is such a gift.  But it gets even better.  Oh, so much better.

We will dwell with Him - in His presence, where only love and joy and peace can exist, and nothing can ever hurt us again.

Forever.