Rapture

A group of believers stand together at sunrise or sunset looking up to heaven. They are waiting for the rapture. But it won’t come. Ever. But that’s not the whole story.


The rapture is really transportation into a higher, spiritual world. And while it may not be an eternal experience, life is full of many small raptures. The fireman who risks his life to save a child. The medic working grueling hours in a war zone. The woman who risks her life to fight for social justice. The transgender girl who proudly asserts her right to be herself.


These are all small raptures. Each is a human transported into eternity if only briefly. Only briefly God, in the highest calling. And what we don’t realize is that there are countless of these small raptures happening around us to humans who are not passively waiting for the rapture, acting selflessly to make the rapture palpable.