Next?

I truly enjoy traveling. I’ve been blessed to be able to do that in the past, and I am so grateful for the opportunities. A great deal has been done in our own country, and quite a bit in others.

Within the US, Yosemite is among my top favorites. Unfortunately, Yellowstone is way up there, too. As is the Grand Canyon with its sunny openness, but so is Carlsbad Caverns, with its dark closeness. The Great Lakes are awesome, but their waves don’t match those on Hawaii’s North Shore.

Our Rockies, as beautiful as they are from the Sangre de Cristo north, aren’t as rocky as those in Canada. Their “newness” reach for the heavens, where the Smoky Mountains are more smoothly worn. The Wichitas, across Oklahoma and Arkansas, appear even older and softer.

Sailing from Miami into the incomparable blueness of the Caribbean is matched by the icy greenness of Glacier Bay’s melts headed for the Pacific. Islands from Taiwan to Cyprus were awesome. Each one has a uniqueness that elicits memories, and I continue to enjoy them.

There were many more places on my list of places I wanted to go. I missed a trip to Kuwait and one to San Salvador. I didn’t make it to Ivanovskya Square, Kremlin and the river for which Moscow was named. Ayers Rock, the Great Wall of China, Fujiyama, Speyer, Hoorn, Big Ben, Kilimanjaro – none of those marked off my list.

The most awesome sight I shall someday see is the city that is built four square:

And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. (Revelation 21:16 KJV)

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (Revelation 21:1-2 KJV)

I believe these words, as did John imprisoned on Patmos:

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. (Revelation 1:1-2 KJV)

Some would say that since this has not yet happened, the writings are false and will not occur in the future. Would that “shortly” meant the same thing to God and mankind, but knowing His timetable does not, still looking forward to that day and knowing:

… These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. (Revelation 22:6 KJV)