Knowing the ending

Anne Marie, who's going through a difficult time, has a beautiful post about how, as Christians, we can take comfort in the fact that we know how the great story of the world will end, and that all our earthly troubles are fleeting. An excerpt:

Slowing down the busyness of life to simply be with this child. To just listen to him or watch him learn how to pogo, or hold him while he cries telling me that he wishes he could have met the Governor when he was in the Capital so he could have discussed this law she signed that forces him to leave us for a night every ten days.

It's this time spent that reaches into the future, reaches all the way to eternity. The homes we build will crumble to the ground like so much dust, but my afternoon with my son, attending Mass and an ever so brief adoration, the quite time at home unplugged from the TV, the PSP, the internet and even the radio, these are the milliseconds that will resonate throughout time.

Read the rest here.