The neverending

Yet my happiness was very tranquil, with an inward peace no earthly thing could touch. Night came at last to end my lovely evening, for darkness falls even on the brightest day. Only the first day of Communion in Eternity will never end. (St. Therese of Lisieux)

Most of us believe in the neverending.

For those who may not believe in God, but who believe in what can be infered from the visible universe, then some kind of existence is neverending - be it an unseen chain of universes in a multiverse. While the scope of creation is unimaginably vast, and this view of existence is not without beauty, I think that this view of the neverending lacks one thing.

For those who believe in heaven, the neverending is the stateless eternity of God. As St. Augustine said, Your years are but a day, and your day does not reoccur, but is always today. Your "today" does not yield to tomorrow and does not follow yesterday. Your "today" is eternity. God's eternity, the kingdom of Heaven, is as neverending as the multiverse, and beautiful like it, too. But it has one additional feature: love. "God is love," John tells us, and an eternity full of love is a far greater eternity, as impossible as talk of greater eternities may seem. Who could not wish to attain such an eternity?