The Great Adventure

The Great Adventure Andrew Peterson "God is at home. We are in the far country."- Meister Eckhart I read that quote in an Annie Dillard book several years ago and it never left me. Too often we tend to imagine that heaven is a cotton-white cloudscape, a place that doesn't seem desirable to us here in this sometimes beautiful, sometimes horrifying world. We're comfortable here, and the skewed notion we have of eternity is that it's like a never-ending church service, where we'll be standing mindlessly around a throne, singing bad praise songs to a white-haired God for the rest of our existence. From what I know about God, what I've read of [God] in scripture and what I've seen of [God] in what has been made--towering mountains, howling wind, purple budded trees, a baby's touch and a panther's roar--[God] is not a tame God. The City prepared for us is not a retirement home. Zion is not a country club. Death is but the cusp of a great adventure. Source: The Far Country (CD) Read more and add your thoughts at inward/outward This message is a daily service of inward/outward. Was this message forwarded to you? Click here to sign up. No longer interested in receiving these readings? Click here to unsubscribe. Having trouble unsubscribing? Email Church of the Saviour Office: churchofthesaviour.office@gmail.com