Reading "The Weight of Glory" made me think of this song as Lewis talked about life after this one. I had thought of heaven as spending eternity with God, the streets paved with gold, and singing and rejoicing, but I never thought of seeing glimpses of heaven in the things we find absolutely beautiful on Earth, the things that just take your breath away. I had never thought of our yearning for heaven as wanting "to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it." It made me remember a speaker who said he thought of heaven as biting into this piece of juicy, tender steak and just enjoying the juices, the taste, the texture. (Sorry vegetarians.)
The song is "Heaven is the Face" by Steven Curtis Chapman. This was from his first album after his five-year-old daughter was struck by the car her brother was driving. So here is heaven from another perspective:
The song is "Heaven is the Face" by Steven Curtis Chapman. This was from his first album after his five-year-old daughter was struck by the car her brother was driving. So here is heaven from another perspective:
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