When it's been a long day, the song "After the Last Tear Falls" by Andrew Peterson from his album Love and Thunder is always an encouragement to me. I love the thought that there will be a last time for every bad thing and God's love will outlast them all.
After the last tear falls
After the last secret's told
After the last bullet tears through flesh and bone
After the last child starves
And the last girl walks the boulevard
After the last year that's just too hard
There is love, love, love, love
There is love, love, love, love
There is love
After the last disgrace
After the last lie to save some face
After the last brutal jab from a poison tongue
After the last dirty politician
After the last meal down at the mission
After the last lonely night in prison
There is love, love, love, love
There is love, love, love, love
There is love
And in the end, the end is oceans and oceans of love and love again
We'll see how the tears that have fallen were caught in the palms
Of the Giver of Love and the Lover of All
And we'll look back on these tears as old tales
Cause after the last plan fails
After the last siren wails
After the last young husband sails off to join the war
After the last "this marriage is over!"
After the last young girl's innocence is stolen
After the last years of silence that won't let a heart open
There is love, love, love, love
There is love, love, love, love
There is love
And in the end, the end is oceans and oceans of love and love again
We'll see how the tears that have fallen were caught in the palms
Of the Giver of Love and the Lover of All
And we'll look back on these tears as old tales
Cause after the last tear falls
There is love
Meadow green and river wide (love, love, love)
Valley deep and mountain high (love, love, love)
(copyright 2003 Provident Label Group LLC, used by permission)
Friends, there will be a last SIDS death, a last back-talking child, a last bout of the flu, a last load of laundry, a last tired day... Let us hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope (Hebrews 5:6)!
3 comments:
Curious about the last load of laundry bit-- do you think there will be no working in heaven? I mean, will we still get dirty? It's not always bad, right? Will there still be chores? I wonder about that.
I DO think there will be working in heaven. And no, doing laundry is not necessarily a result of the curse. As to whether or not we'll get dirty or do laundry, I'm not sure there's a Biblical answer for that, so I suppose it's possible that there may not be a last load of laundry. But I'd like to think so :) There will, at the very least, not be any laundry involving bed-wetter sheets, pukey clothing or impossible stains, all of which I have dealt with this week. Whatever work we do in heaven will be perfectly pleasurable, even if it's hard work (in this life, laundry doesn't fit in that category for me).
Also, did you know that if you type the word "laundry" this many times in one paragraph, it starts to look very odd? :)
Actually, now that I think about it, laundry IS a result of the fall... there weren't any clothes before that. But no, there is generally not any sin involved in laundry, other than possibly a complaining disposition.
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