TWINKLE

When was the last time you had a twinkle in your eye? And what was the cause? I think it is a term for some moment or experience that gives incredible or exquisite joy to one’s life. Such as when a dream comes true.

Perhaps part of the cause for the twinkle is because dreams don’t come true that often. So when they do we truly have a reason to radiate with pure euphoria from our gazing orbs.

It doesn’t appear to me that there are more instances of twinkle for a person’s life than there are tears. I’ve never personally known anyone regardless of the mental outlook that had a life, which was one constant source of twinkle.

Maybe it is because of this reality that we see heaven at times as a place of permanent and eternal twinkle. This is might be, but I can’t say for sure.

Heaven as I appreciate it is the place where Jesus reigns on his throne and it when God the Father also is on his throne. Beyond that we I think know it is the ultimate place where God’s will is expressed. There is always speculation about how we as souls will reside in God’s eternal dwelling place, but again that is just speculation. Personally I think the priority will be surrendering and service to one’s Lord. But since the Lord is so loving and caring he will also bless us in that eternal climate that will provide a twinkle that will never end.

It is so easy in this life to be consumed with thought of heaven if one’s existence is too marred. At the same time if we were to know nothing, but blessing then it would in one way blind us by this world’s twinkle to thinking about eternity.

So we life the in between. Consumed with the urgency of now, eyes twinkling as circumstances inspires and perhaps at times being governed by a more lucid form of logic that tries to think in terms of eternity.

What I wonder about at times is do we try to make the twinkle we crave in this life a substitute for heaven? We look for experiences that grant us some sense of emotional high. That seems to be a common approach even in some churches.

To that end then maybe what we crave for a twinkle is different than the Lord has in mind. We look for the emotional high that is like a fire, which dies. God wants us to know the twinkle that comes from within as a result of a sense of fulfillment.

The first is just a breath for the soul. It never helps us endure during the storms. The latter is more like a warmth that keeps generating for us a twinkle when the shadows come from trials we can’t control. Only along the way we have to be willing to see as only God can grant us vision. May he grant us a more perfect sight and one that will t touch deep into the mind’s eye where we see what we feel is truth regardless of what our regular vision sees.