As I watched, the sun broke free below dark clouds along the fells and suddenly, brilliant shafts of light draped the sky, touching every leaf and blade of grass; enabling their own beauty.
The scene was reminiscent of those 'spleandour' pictures of heaven meeting earth. I was aware of a beauty beyond all physical senses, and for a while I thought of Elizabeth of the Trinity. Still a young woman in 1906, she knew the time was near when her then incurable illness would lead her into eternal realms. She wrote to her sister, I am sure that you will rejoice at my first meeting with Divine Beauty ... the Lord .... then to spend my eternity in the Trinity which is already my dwelling-place here below.
I thought about heaven - and the Divine Beauty. I imagined myself there - lost with loved ones - in the vast, countless crowd - as more and more the numbers swelled. I saw the smiles and heard the laughter of children no longer hungry; the relieved faces of war victims made free; of refugees now at home .... all overwhelmed by the beauty. Surely many of them had never had opportunity to glimpse this through Jesus in their time on earth ... and I had not told them! I pray there may be many called to prepare others for the Divine Beauty of The Trinity. They are all welcomed through the grace of God.
The scene was reminiscent of those 'spleandour' pictures of heaven meeting earth. I was aware of a beauty beyond all physical senses, and for a while I thought of Elizabeth of the Trinity. Still a young woman in 1906, she knew the time was near when her then incurable illness would lead her into eternal realms. She wrote to her sister, I am sure that you will rejoice at my first meeting with Divine Beauty ... the Lord .... then to spend my eternity in the Trinity which is already my dwelling-place here below.
I thought about heaven - and the Divine Beauty. I imagined myself there - lost with loved ones - in the vast, countless crowd - as more and more the numbers swelled. I saw the smiles and heard the laughter of children no longer hungry; the relieved faces of war victims made free; of refugees now at home .... all overwhelmed by the beauty. Surely many of them had never had opportunity to glimpse this through Jesus in their time on earth ... and I had not told them! I pray there may be many called to prepare others for the Divine Beauty of The Trinity. They are all welcomed through the grace of God.
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