Tranquility

Today was an interesting day. It started out by attending our regular service at Colorado Community Church. The head pastor was absent for some reason and another pastor filled in his place. To be honest, I wasn't really impressed with the talk, but then again, should I be? We as American Christians walk from our Sunday sermons discussing how the worship was, and if the pastor's talk was captivating. We often fail to just absorb the words and walk from the service wondering if God was honored, rather than if our attention was kept. Needless to say, my attention was wandering.

But what happened at the end of the service was nothing short of life altering. There are moments in life where the worries and troubles of this world fade away and certain points in time just captivate us. Some may remember the birth of their first child, their wedding day, or just those moments when God is just so relevant and near. Today was one of those moments. Our worship director Marcel came up after the end of the talk and had us all close our eyes. He played the piano in a relaxing peaceful manner, and just described the party, wonder, and glory in heaven. Putting the passages from Revelation into his own words, each person in that room was transcended into a worship of the Most High and each one forgot they were still living and breathing in this world. Maybe imposing that moment on everyone is a stretch, but for me, it was there.

What will heaven be like? Do we get caught up in this mundane idea that heaven is full of monotone "Holy, Holy, Holy's" or the perpetual sounds of harps coming from angels riding on clouds? Are we scared that heaven is going to be just one big worship session of Jesus and that just sounds lame, especially because we don't encounter Jesus in our sessions here on earth?

Or will heaven be filled with excitement, joy, and life? Isaiah talks about heaven as if we were waking from a dream. Is that so? When we are in heaven, will we look at our earthly life as disconnected and plot lines that don't make sense, as in our crazy dreams that seem real while we are in them, but once we awake, we laugh at the craziness that is caught up in our head? Will heaven be more real. Will foods have more flavor at the banquet? Will there be new colors never imagined?

As for now, our life will have moments of tranquility where life's troubles pass and those minutes of peace with our Father in heaven will be nothing short of spectacular. But someday, those moments, will become regularity, and the intensity will be far greater than anything imagined.