The Mystery of the Manifestation in the Lift

Sunday morning was very blowy, and cold, with rain threatened, and Col kindly chauffered me to the Kingdom Hall. I am so shaky on my feet now that I had my stick with me.  He walked down the stairs,  I got the lift.  

I was alone in the lift, yet, strangely, reflected in the polished door was the hand of an old lady, resting on a walking stick.

Where did she come from?   There was no-one else in the lift.  Maybe one of my readers can solve the puzzle... or maybe I would rather you didn't.

Quite sunny here today, so far, and we are in the process of signing what we hope will be the final document in the sale of our rental flat.  Our neighbour across the hall kindly witnessed it. I hope we are doing the right thing, but our tenants have wanted to buy it for quite some time, and it will simplify our lives. 

It seems that yet another country is descending into chaos, as the Syrian government falls.  I can only hope that it turns out well for the people, especially of course my Syrian brothers and sisters.  But what so often follows revolution/rebellion?  Something even worse maybe?  And didn't the tragedy we are all of us living in now begin with a rebellion, the rebellion in Eden, when our first parents were persuaded to rebel against their loving Creator and set their own standards of good and bad?

I will see if I can find a picture of a beautiful garden to head this blog, to remind us of the garden our first parents lost, but which we still long for.  And hopefully to remind us that it lies ahead, when the whole earth is under the loving rule of the heavenly government, the Kingdom of God.

The photo above is one Col took when we visited Arundel Castle at tulip time, with Nute - some years ago now, pre-Lockdown.

How lovely is that?  So how lovely is the earth going to become during the Thousand Years during which the whole earth becomes a paradise garden - a garden of peace, no more wars, and nature no longer "red in tooth and claw". And then, what?

Can we all please search for our Creator, Jehovah, now, and be there to find out and to enjoy our lives forever?

And to end on what may seem a trivial note, we will all be able to take the lift - should we need them then - without any fear of the hands of old ladies materialising in the reflective doors.  We will be perfect and living then, not damaged and dying as we are now.