The Second Coming
What it can mean
Waiting for someone to arrive is a part of life.
We check the time as we wait at the entrance to the Heavenly Clouds Café for our friend to turn up. Five minutes late. Hmm. We pace a bit. As the minutes pass we get a bit anxious, but when half an hour has gone down the drain, we snort with impatience and send them a curt questioning text. We give them another few minutes to reply, then sadly head back to the car. They’d obviously forgotten the appointment we’d been looking forward to for so long.
But half an hour isn’t really a very long time to wait for someone.
What if you’ve been waiting for two thousand years for someone to turn up?
A lot of people have been.
And so had I.
This is what I learned while I waited . . . and waited . . . and waited . . .
The Second Coming (of Christ)
In 1962, when I was eight years old, I heard that Christ was going to arrive in the clouds of heaven in 1975. Christ had left planet Earth and gone to heaven about two thousand years ago, so humans had been waiting a very long time for him to turn up. The wonderful thing was that I was one of the Chosen Ones, and he was going to come in my lifetime! I just had to wait for thirteen…
