| The Ministry of Comfort |
Chapter 4 |
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So it is only for a little while that God takes from us our loved ones. We shall have then again, made into immortal beauty. The hopes we mourn as having perished are yet in Christ’s hands. He will keep them safe for us and at length will give them back to us in radiant and imperishable loveliness. In this life we see only the beginnings of our good things – we see them but in bud and blossom; the full fruit, the ripeness we shall not get till we enter the other and better life. One of the surprises of heaven will be our finding there the precious hopes, joys, and dreams which seemed to have perished on earth – not left behind, but all carried forward and ready to be given into our hands the moment we get home.
“Let us hope on though the way be long
And the darkness be gathering fast,
For the turn in the road is a little way on
Where the home lights will greet us at last.”
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