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As I have written elsewhere I am finding it increasingly helpful to meditate on heaven during the challenging days in which we live. One way to do this is to listen to Christian songs which fix my gaze on the joy which is to come. Here are some of the songs I’m finding helpful at the moment. And here’s a quote from Jonathan Edwards to go with them:

Christ and his disciples, while on earth, were often together in affliction and trial, and they kept up and manifested the strongest love and friendship to each other under great and sore sufferings. And now in heaven they enjoy each other’s love in immortal glory, all sorrow and sighing having forever fled away. Both Christ and his people were acquainted with much sorrow and grief in this world, though Christ had the greatest share, being particularly a “man of sorrows.” But in heaven they shall sit together in heavenly places, where sorrow and grief shall never more be known. And so all God’s people will enjoy each other’s love in heaven, in a glory and prosperity in comparison with which the wealth and thrones of the greatest earthly princes are but as sordid poverty and destitution. So that as they love one another, they have not only their own but each other’s prosperity to rejoice in, and are by love made partakers of each other’s blessedness and glory. Such is the love of every saint to every other saint, that it makes the glory which he sees other saints enjoy, as it were, his own. He so rejoices that they enjoy such glory, that it is in some respects to him as if he himself enjoyed it in his own personal experience.

Jonathan Edwards, Heaven a world of love

I’ve also created a playlist at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/09hlukRgZOf7Hbn6Kio46p?si=f30efd2599f1406f