There's something great and vast about Life that eludes me.  Often we try to pierce the veil of this reality with feelings and emotions that are thrust out of our soul like spears into the night in an attempt to touch that ethereal something that barely escapes the fingertips of our soul. 

We call it searching for Truth, but the concept is always so nebulous.  We try to use words to wrap something tangible around those feelings and paint them into something that we can grasp, but there are some things that can never be roped into anything rock solid.  There's more to Life than we can ever understand.

We think we know, but it is all beyond our comprehension, and much bigger than we can imagine.  We all have a concept of what God is, how big He is, and where He resides, but it is only translucent glimmers in our soul.  Somewhere, way up there, is God.  We feel that if we could just slice into the fabric of Reality with a knife, we would see Him sitting on His throne surrounded by all those angels, but we don't have anything sharp enough.

So we try to bring it all into focus with words, vaguely aware of the impotency of our efforts.  Still we try, because somewhere down deep inside us is an urgency that knows that Eternity is waiting for us at the end of our lives.  Somewhere on the other side of that dark door of death our ultimate destiny awaits us, silently, patiently, and immovable.  We can feel it, but we can't quite put our finger on it.  We try to grasp it, but our fingers come back empty.

Wasn't it Thoreau who said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"?  Life in this reality is absorbing, but transient.  Our time seems to be spent in a sea of long pauses that are filled up with work or amusement, while we wait for those intermittent islands of something truly meaningful.  Not that love, charity, fun or any of the other things of life that we value are vain, but every once in a while, we are able to reach through that veil and we touch something eternal.  Sometimes, it is just for a moment, but it is enough to realize that we had a fleeting grasp on something that transcends this world.

A friend of mine said that there's more to God than what we want.  Just as God is greater than what we can want, so life is much more than what we see with our eyes.   I want to finish the course of my life knowing that I have at least touched some islands of true reality, and not gone through a lifetime numb to my eternal destiny.  If God is true, then being able to touch the Throne of God is the only real thing that we can do.  To dismiss that as a secondary interest is to miss the meaning of Life.

We pass through the road of Life only once, and then the door of Death slams shut.  Reach through the veil and go through life with your fingers grasped around the hand of God.