This reading from Revelation is one of my favorites. It gives a glimpse into what the Kingdom of God looks like. And this isn't a glimpse of some ethereal, cloud-filled territory we will move to when we die. Heaven is meant for us now---and later. We experience it already, but not fully yet.
Whenever we act and move from the love of God, instead of the love of self, then we experience Heaven--God's Kingdom---where God dwells. And God promises to dwell within humanity.
Today, allow yourself to rest in the beauty of these words and then look for their living reality in your life and the life of the world around you.
Today, make Heaven a reality for others.
Then I saw a new heaven and new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,
"See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away."
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