I think I spoke too soon. The flowers around here are still pretty good! I know I will have some blooming in the next day or so, but that's for another time. If what we have here is just a shadow of things to come, which it is, then how much greater will the real beauty be? Our world is subject to decay, and death, but in the heavenlies they is no such thing! It is beyond our wildest imagination in terms of beauty, purity and strength. It is so beyond us, that the angels around the throne of God sing: "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is the Lord God Almighty, The whole earth is filled with His Glory!           {Isaiah 6:3} We will be overcome with all that will surround us.

Think on these things. When everything around you seems to be closing in. When you don't feel well. When the dog wets the floor for the sixth time today. This world we be gone someday! It is not the reality, only a picture, a faded picture of what is to come. "So I will restore to you all the years that the  swarming locust have eaten- {Joel 2:25} "Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel; I am the Lord Your God And there is no other. My people shall never be put to shame." {Joel 2:27}