Hearing Music for the First Time
One of the Xangas I’m subscribed to is written by a sweet lady who has been deaf her entire life. She recently underwent cochlear implant surgery, which put a device in her ear that would allow her some level of hearing for the first time ever. I’m reading the first blog she wrote since the device was turned on. It’s mostly pictures of what happened just after, and this is the one that moved me:
I thought of it as a parallel for heaven. When we get there, won’t its wonders be so amazing that it will be like hearing music for the very first time? Something we could never have possibly have imagined, no matter how far we stretched our brains to do so? Beauty we could never have invented? Awe and joy at the absolute fitness and rightness of it? And most of all, complete amazement at how great our God is.
We can only imagine what heaven is really like but I think you have described the feeling better than anybody else I have heard from.
Your analysis is insightful. I had never thought about the wonder of heaven in that light, but it is so true.
Echoes of C.S. Lewis.
Absolutely amazing and your thoughts on the matter are penetrating.