Heaven?

Sometimes, I find myself dreaming about what heaven will be like. I know a little bit about what the Bible says heaven will be like, such as streets paved with gold and no more sorrow and no more pain and that sounds amazing and wonderful, but I also like to believe that heaven will also be a place where I am never in a hurry.

I really don't like always being in a hurry and that is pretty much a given during the school year. I hurry home from working out to hurry up and take a shower to hurry up and get Abigail up so she can hurry up and get ready while I hurry up and make her lunch and prepare breakfast. Then I "encourage" her to hurry up and eat so that we can hurry up and make it to school on time. Then I spend the day hurrying around trying to get laundry done, errands run, emails returned, before I have to hurry and make lunch. After lunch I try to hurry Rebecca down for a nap so that we can hurry up and be at the school by 3:00 to pick up Abigail. After school we hurry to piano lessons and sports practices and we hurry to finish homework and cook dinner. I hurry to get to PTA meetings, doctors' appointments, play dates, Bible Studies. After dinner we hurry through baths and stories and prayers so that it is not too late when we get to sleep so that we can wake up the next day and hurry, hurry, hurry all over again. Don't get me wrong. I like to stay busy. It's the constant state of being rushed in my busyness that I can't stand.

The past 4 days have been a little like what I hope heaven will be like. Thursday, we got 11 inches of snow that almost completely shut down the city. Schools were closed, extracurricular activities were cancelled and the streets were a mess so there were no errands to run. Were we bored? No way! We stayed busy playing games, making soups and chili, baking, watching movies, shoveling snow, playing in the snow, reading, updating long neglected blogs, etc. But we were never in a hurry and it was WONDERFUL!!!

Tomorrow we will be back to hurrying around and I will be back to dreaming of what it might be like in heaven.

Philippians 3:14

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.