In the House of the Lord Forever

Will Will it consist we arrive of gates of pearl with loud blast and gold-paved streets, of trumpet fanfare, or forests or tiptoe in lush, and silently, as crystalline the waking streams? of dreams? Will Will we look we recall like heavenly all the memories beings imagined by we formed on earth artists: with wings, white or only the robes, gold idyllic ones harps, and or will they cherub face? be erased? Will Will we be there be young, wise food to taste, strong, beautiful, sunsets to watch, tall, short, dark, pale, oceans to paddle in, or simply or will we invisible, enjoy only spiritual brand new beings? pleasures? Will Will we meet we be history's saints able to walk and ask them all our and talk with God many, various questions, as we would a friend? What did He Or will we look like? reverently Was His a bow in awe kind face? of a King? Will Will there be there be any yesterday, no tears, thirst, today or tomorrow, mourning, pain, war, 5 minutes from now, or death, night, or hunger? a week from next Tuesday, Will I have faith to believe? or will time I don't know as we know the answers it be made to all these obsolete? questions... But I have heard of One who knows - to heaven's glorious throne he rose. May I dwell there in unstained clothes in the house of the Lord forever. "Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever" (Psalm 23:6)