If we will listen with kindness and compassion to our own souls, we will hear the echoes of a hope so precious we can barely put words to it, a wild hope we can hardly bear to embrace. God put it there. He also breathed the corresponding Promise into the earth; it is the whisper that keeps coming to us in moments of golden goodness. But of course. “He has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart . . .” (Ecclesiastes 3:11 NLT). The secret to your unhappiness and the answer to the agony of the earth are one and the same—we are longing for the kingdom
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