The Word Among Us

Advent 2007 Issue

Reading the Signs

How to see heaven in your everyday life.

Scripture tells us that faith is "the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1). According to St. Paul, faith creates a desire for God and a longing to be with him, "clothed with our heavenly habitation" (2 Corinthians 5:2).

This desire for God is the reason why people choose to "walk by faith, not by sight"—even when walking "by sight" seems so much easier...

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