~Heaven~

I just finished Uncle Tom's Cabin . The book not only let me peer through the veil of history; it also stricken my heart strings more than once and revealed to me the significance of heaven. I know the Sunday school answer that heaven is my eternal home, but my heart yearns for the earthly things. I've often faced with the question that if there is a God who is the definition of love, how can He let sufferings continue? I've seen horrors of holocaust through pictures and study the brutality of the Middle Passage in history class. But when I read the unbearable sufferings that Tom went through, they gave me an answer that can only be described through heartbeats. Tom lost everything that he has on earth: family, dignity, and freedom (something that I take granted for I am not only free on Earth, but I am also free in Christ). There is something that man cannot take away from him, heaven. "Who can separate us from the love of Christ?" "What can mortal man do to you?" His sufferings were too great to be describe in words, and yet the author advise us to "pity him not for it is written 'Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.'" The book motivates me to keep my eyes focus on the cross, and my heart on heaven.