My Airport Contemplations

Yesterday one of my Aunts arrived from Italy! It is sooo awesome that she is here! Her and my mum have been all busy with wedding prepaprations and stuff. I feel so honored that so many people are making such an effort for my wedding! I can't believe all the inconveniences that so many people are going through just for me! Booking hotels, flying over from all over the world, driving up hours and hours, buying new clothes...!
I do feel slightly guilty at times, but very very touched!


anyway, yesterday my mum & I arrived 20 minutes before my Aunt's plane landed at the airport, and it was another 40 minutes before she emerged, so I spent a very long time watching people emerging from the arrivals....and it got me thinking...

Some people emerging were actively looking for their loved ones in thr crowds who'd come to greet them and take them home. They came out pulling their suitcases, with eye-brows knitted together, chewing their lips and staring intently into the crowds looking for a familiar face. Then suddenly and unexpectadly they'd see their loved one, and their face would instantly break into a beautiful gorgeous uncontrollable smile!!
Their pace would pick up slightly as they kept their eyes fixed on the one they love, and still uncontrollably smiling, would make a bee-line for them!

The children were even cuter; they'd come out with one mummy, be looking around and they suddenly squeal "I see daddy! I see daddy!" and unable to stop themselves would start running, with their little suitcase, towards him and then throw themselves in his arms!


I thought this was such a touching and beautiful display of human emotion! Just the uncontrollable happiness at seeing a loved one was so lovely to witness!

and it got me thinking...

Noone broke out in massive grin when they saw a stranger. Just when they saw someone they recognised, who'd come for them and whom they knew and loved.

and so will it be when we die.

If we have built up a relationship of genuine honest love with Christ, and we have made the effort to know Him, to love Him and include Him in every aspect of our life, then when we die and see Him we'll be so uncontrollably happy that we will break into a smile and instinctly make a bee-line for Him!! Our love for Him will take over!

But if we have no idea who Christ is during our life, no idea what charity for neighbour is, then when we die and see Him, will we recognise Him? Maybe not? If we haven't cultivated love and charity during our life-time, there may not be anything their in our souls when we see Him when we die. And just like we wouldn't go running up to a random stranger now, we may not do it when we see Christ, because He will be a stranger to us.


Clearly, I don't know what happens when we die, but I found it a helpful analogy for me, and reminded me that faith must be alive and lived with every breath, and that I should try and renew an inner dialogue with Christ, telling him how much I love Him each moment of the day, and asking His Mother and Saints to pray for me!


anyway! My mum and Aunt are just preparing themselves to go up north now. How I wish I could go with them! But no; it is 8:12am and I have lectures beginning in 30 minutes and not ending till 5:10pm!!!
and likewise for tomorrow and Friday (although I taking off a few hours on Friday afternoon!!)



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