Something Greater

Lately I have been listening to a song, in which a particular part rouses a strange but beautiful feeling, it is almost a longing for something unknown. All of us get these feelings, they come in different forms, often the feeling will come when we hear a particular strain of music, or when we see something especially beautiful. Many people have noticed it before; L.M. Montgomery in her book Anne of Green Gables has Anne tell how sometimes she has a queer ache whenever she sees something especially beautiful. Sheldon Vanauken mentions the same thing in his book A Severe Mercy. In C.S Lewis' book Till we Have Faces the character Psyche mentions the feeling of longing that she has for something greater when she sees something beautiful, she says, "I have always—at least ever since I can remember—had a kind of longing for death(...) It was when I was happiest that I longed most. It was on happy days when we were there on the hills, the three of us, with the wind and sunshine(...) And because it was so beautiful it set me longing, always longing. Somewhere there else there must be more of it."

That longing for something greater is the longing for heaven. All of us have a longing for heaven, and we notice it when we see or hear little things that are especially beautiful, because it makes us think of Heaven.This longing that we have for heaven proves that heaven exists, and that man was made to enjoy it, but not everybody will enjoy it. Lewis says in The Weight of Glory "A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. but surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will." (Sorry about the long quotes, for some reason all the really good quotes are a mile long :D) This feeling that we all have shows we were made for something greater.
Are you going to enjoy it?

P.S. As you know almost all of the pictures on this blog were taken by me, except these. I didn't take them, I just found them on the internet, just so you know:)

Gavi