Earth

This place, this earth... It is growing old and tired. Weighed down with thousands of years of sin, death, destruction, and madness. 

It is sad. The earth is a sad place. 

But.... 

When glimpses of heaven show through, it has bursts of unexpected joy. Sunrises, sunsets, birth, weddings, animals playing, God's people singing... 

But if we fall quiet, the sadness pervades. And it is growing. 

God, come for us soon.