Contrast.
God's India ink pen on the stark white board. The extremes of life exhibit themselves as necessary landscapes we must traverse in our journey to "the promised land". The low times in life allow us to appreciate the better times. The sickness we get allows us to better appreciate the health we have once we recover. Sometimes visiting foreign places result in a greater appreciation of the country or home we live in. Almost or actually losing a loved one often results in a renewed love and appreciation of them, as does absence itself. It is God's genius of contrast in which we learn to differentiate these experiences. This finite life is riddled with fear, volatility, inconsistencies, heartbreak and deceptions (spiked with times of plenty) in order for us to truly celebrate and revel in the Life of the World to Come. An infinite life of love, balance, loyalty, trust, consistency and truth. This is what I imagine heaven is...the opposite of what we are in now. The greatest contrast. Our lesson in this life is to know various pains so that we can forever appreciate the impending bliss.
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