Repair.

I read this today and thought I would share. If you're a believer, it will have a very significant meaning:

"Instead of the new earth as our eternal home, we offer an intangible and utterly unfamiliar heaven that's the opposite of home.
When we think of heaven as unearthly, our present lives seem unspiritual, like they don't matter. When we grasp the reality of the new earth, our present lives suddenly matter. Conversations with loved ones matter. Work, leisure, creativity, and intellectual stimulation matter. Laughter matters. Service matters. Why? Because they are eternal. Our present life on earth matters not because it's the only life we have but precisely because it isn't-- it's the beginning of a life that will continue without end.

Jesus said, "I go to prepare a place for you." The carpenter from Nazareth knows how to build. He's built entire worlds, billions of them. He's also an expert at repairing what's been damaged-- whether people or worlds. Romans 8 tells us this damaged universe groans, crying out to be repaired. Jesus is going to repair it, and we're going to live with him on resurrected ground. He's going to repair this earth because he's no more given up on it than he's given up on us."

-Randy Alcorn