{"id":1564,"date":"2011-09-03T17:49:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T15:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auderset.com\/\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2011-09-10T20:26:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T18:26:21","slug":"les-portes-de-la-gloire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/les-portes-de-la-gloire\/","title":{"rendered":"The gates of glory"},"content":{"rendered":"

”Pop, what\u2019s \u2018glory\u2019 mean<\/strong>?
\nDoes it mean being known?”<\/p>\n

– “Um…yes, no,\u2026hang on, I\u2019ll explain it to you”:<\/p>\n

One day, I\u2019ll arrive at Heaven\u2019s gate,
\nwhich will be incredibly impressive,
\nguarded by archangels who are so powerful
\nthat I\u2019ll be as insignificant as a fly without a passport buzzing around their feet.<\/p>\n

These Guardians are dressed in white, not in white clothes,
\nbut white like all the waters of the Niagara falls,
\nalthough so much more powerful, that compared to these guardians,
\nthese falls are little more than the size of a toilet flush in a dolls\u2019 house bathroom
\n(made In China, sold on through eBay in the \u2018well worn\u2019 category).<\/p>\n

All the inhabitants of Heaven are there,
\ncalm, beautiful, amazing, celestial…<\/p>\n

Do you know that in the depths of their looks
\nwe can read the wisdom drawn from the mysteries of ancient times?
\n(Yeah\u2026 I don\u2019t understand that bit either, but it sounds good, doesn\u2019t it?)<\/small><\/p>\n

They watch, unable to believe their eyes,
\nas the piteous beggar pleads before the door:<\/p>\n

-“Let me in,
\nI am the <\/strong>blind and deaf friend of your King<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

Blind<\/strong>, because throughout my life,
\nHe gave me so many wonderful things, so much help, but I was almost <\/em>unable to see it.<\/p>\n

Deaf<\/strong>, because He talked to me so often yet I heard so little<\/em> of what He said…<\/p>\n

My understanding was so limited <\/strong>that when confronted with the absence of loved ones, suffering and death,
\nI understood nothing<\/em>…<\/p>\n

But sometimes,
\nin the \u2018coincidences\u2019 of life, I sensed His presence
\nand in the silence of my prayers,
\nI heard the quiet sound of His steps…”<\/p>\n

Then, from the furthest reaches of paradise,
\nJesus Christ Himself, King of all the universe, will appear,
\ngenerating a hum of astonished murmurs.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll make His way through the awe-struck crowd,
\nand reaching out to me with open arms, He\u2019ll cry:
\n– “let him through, let him through…
\nhe\u2019s my friend!”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what glory is, my son,
\nto be known… by Him.<\/p>\n

Alain<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

”Pop, what\u2019s \u2018glory\u2019 mean? Does it mean being known?” – “Um…yes, no,\u2026hang on, I\u2019ll explain it to you”: One day, I\u2019ll arrive at Heaven\u2019s gate, which will be incredibly impressive, guarded by archangels who are so powerful that I\u2019ll be … More…<\/a> More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}