“it is difficult to define hiraeth, but to me it means the consciousness of man being out of his home area and that which is dear to him. That is why it can be felt even among a host of peoples amidst nature’s beauty; like a Christian yearning for heaven.”
–D. Martyn Lloyd Jones
There is no other band that I know of that captures the Christian’s sense of spiritual homesickness so well as The Gray Havens. In this song they express how even from childhood we can experience these mysterious pangs of longing. For many of us, this leads to a lifelong desire to stay wide awake so that we just might one day find the source of that joyous ache.
Do you know that sense that both Eden lost and the coming resurrection are even now bleeding through into this age? Have you ever caught a glimpse of them on a summer’s evening or an afternoon stroll through the bazaar? For me, these experiences are one means of grace that keep me a Christian, that guard my faith. I have tasted and seen something that is stunning and eternal. And when I have, I have been more alive than I could ever be with any pleasure this world offers.
“You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound” (Psalm 4:7).
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