Liam, Heaven, and Joy Without End

I just spent the last 5 days with my grandson. Sure, my daughter and son-in-law were up visiting too, I think, but my attention was on Liam. Will and Rach live in Virginia so it was a treat for them to be here for 5 whole days. Liam will be 2 years old this month. He is a ball of energy. The thing I noticed is his capacity to enjoy doing the same thing is enormous. He and I got into a game of running from my bedroom where I would pick him up and launch him onto the bed and then dive on him, to his bedroom where there was a bed made up on the floor for him, where he would throw himself down and I would dive on him and we would wrestle until he escaped to run to my room and repeat. Now, when I say repeat I mean repeat...as in do it again...and again...over and over...and repeat. Again, over and over. Now, I am in pretty good shape for an old guy. I think I was even wearing my official Ironman paraphernalia. Liam wore me out. We happened to be doing something that made him laugh and that was enough to keep him doing it for what seemed to be forever. It made me wonder what has happened to my ability to drain an experience of every ounce of joy. Liam was wringing the little game we created of the last drop. Something has become jaded inside of me. I looked in his eyes when I picked him up to tell him that he had had enough and it made me envy him. His eyes were as fresh as the moment we started the game. That got me thinking about heaven. I don't know about you but I have always wondered about what we will do in heaven. I seem to get bored so fast here on earth. What will eternity feel like? And then I remember Liam's eyes and I remember the line from Amazing Grace, "When we've been there 10,000 years, bright shining as the sun, we've no less days to sing his praise then when we first begun." Liam will have no problem with eternity. Such is the state of innocence. Give him a grandpa who loves him and will launch him onto a queen size bed and he is good for hours. Give him a heavenly Father whose love for him fires the sun, who will launch him into a God-sized universe, and he will be good for an eternity...and so will I.