What if God created a vast and perfect universe, filled with beauty unimaginable, created to last forever, filled with every kind of creature, flying, crawling, running, swimming, all in harmony, none harming the other, co-existing together having no fear because as yet there was no reason to fear.
What if God created two people, also designed to live forever with Him, in this unimaginably perfect place.

Walking with God, talking to God, loving God and each other.
Imagine: perfect peace, perfect harmony, perfect union.

No death, no destruction, no violence, no worry, no tears, no sadness.

And what if those two people decided that perfection wasn’t good enough, and that it wasn’t fair for God to withhold even one thing from them; so they did the one thing God had told them not to do…. the only thing He had told them not to do.

They thought they knew better than God, they thought God was misleading them, they thought wrong.

In an instant, everything they had ever known, gone forever. But wait……..

What if God loved them enough to come back to a ruined and sin cursed earth, willing to offer up His own life as a ransom to buy us back.
What if, with one decision we could decide to have paradise restored forever.

He did, and we can!

“Close your eyes as you enter the Green Room of God. Rest awhile in His presence….smell the scent of Heaven and hear the sound of His sighing far up in the trees…. feel the breath of His Holy Spirit as His cloak of peace surrounds you.”

On Hope,

Hope is that thing that starts as a leak of light into the heart…..
A shift, an oh-so-slight change of feeling.
Like the first crack of dawn that comes over the horizon.

And even though the bleakness is still there, you feel that it may not
Always be so.

Sometimes it’s a momentous event that changes everything suddenly,
And sometimes it’s what you read in a book when you realize that
Someone else on earth has felt or is feeling exactly what you feel.

Then you think, well, if they came through it then certainly I can too.