"Thou Lovely Source of True Delight, Whom I unseen adore, unveil Thy beauties to my sight, that I might love Thee more..."

I was driving home from Java n' Jazz last night (which sadly, I'm convinced, has had its "Jazz" removed), when I crested a hill near my neighborhood and was immediately struck my by the beauty of the moon. It was almost full, and was glowing brilliantly white against a pitch black sky. It was huge, like someone had pulled it closer to the earth. It literally took my breath away. But all I could think was that God's beauty, though I've never seen it, must outshine this. It has to. God, heaven, eternity, is better than any beauty we find on earth. And I began to think, I long for heaven. I long to be free from failings. I long to be with my Savior. I long to be free of doubt, free of sin, free of guilt. I long for heaven.

So, after thinking this on the drive home, it stopped me dead in my tracks to find this quote as I lay reading in bed last night:

There have been times when I think that we do not desire heaven; but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.... It is the secret signature of each soul, the incommunicable and unappeasable want, the thing we desired before we met our wives or made our friends, or chose our work, and which we shall still desire on our deathbeds, when the mind no longer knows wife or friend or work.... all your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it.
--C.S. Lewis

After reading this, I couldn't but help to break out in praise. I whipped out my guitar and taught myself "Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder" (Jars of Clay style-- boo yah!) and played it till I couldn't keep my eyes open.


Truly God is great.