The moon is down, and heaven is waiting...

"What is it that really binds the temporal and the eternal? What is it other than love, which therefore is before everything else and remains when all else is past."
-----"Works of Love" by Soren Kierkegaard

The weight of this statement goes far beyond the capacity of my mind. It's so simple, so plain, yet so true and deep. It all boils down to love, and only love...

I should go out tonight, but I haven't got a stitch to wear...

"I cannot now remember whether she was naked or clothed. If she were naked, then it must have been the almost visible penumbra* of her courtesy and joy which produces in my memory the illusion of a great and shining train that followed her across the happy grass. If she were clothed, then the illusion of nakedness is doubtless due to the clarity with which her innermost spirit shone through the clothes. For clothes in that country are not a disguise: the spiritual body lives along each thread and turns them into living organs. A robe or a crown is there as much one of the wearer's features as a lip or an eye."
---- "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis

*penumbra--a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light

One day we will live without shame. We will not run and hide and cover ourselves before God. We will be standing there before Him as He created us. Joy will illuminate our souls in such a way that our nakedness will be seen as glorious! Free from our old wretched bodies before the Throne in complete awe of His being. Simply wonderful...