What Are Glorified Bodies?

We are all destined, eventually, for the resurrection of the body. What will our bodies be like in the new, glorified state? We really don’t know. But we have premonitions. I suspect it will be like:

- Fred Astaire dancing with Ginger Rogers.
- The first time, and every time, you know the one you love loves you.
- Tiger Woods’ swing.
- Becca laughing heartily, when just seconds before she was crying or yelling.
- The smell of fresh coffee early in the morning.
- Your First Communion day.
- Cleansing your mouth at the end of a root canal. (Spelled relief!)
- The delicate, sweet aroma from the head of a 2-year old that is falling asleep in your arms.
- Running through the woods with Hawkeye and Chingadigook, carrying long rifles, to the score of Last of the Mohicans.
- Seeing again and at last those you have loved and lost to death.
- My wife MaryLynn’s garden in the spring.
- John winning Hudson Cross Count Meet: smooth, confident, effortless.
- Jogging along the seashore to the musical score of Chariots of Fire.
- Your girl friend asleep, her head resting on your shoulder in sublime trust.
- Finally finding the courage to stand up to that bully.
- The Friday Nighters, my parents’ friends, singing along with Mitch at a 1950s party, after quite a few beers.
- The prayerful, peaceful, melodic pace of a Benedictine monastery.
- My daughter Clare’s windmill pitch.
- Waking, as a child, on Christmas morning.
- That crystal, brilliant morning in Tanglewood in August of 1973.
- The very first day of any vacation.
- Perfectly catching the perfect wave while body surfing at the Jersey Shore at age 19.
- First urination without a catheter after colon surgery.
- Rodolfo and Mimi’s love aria at the end of the first act of La Boheme.
- Michael Jordan, down by 1 with 5 seconds remaining, receives the ball.
- Mary Elizabeth’s first appearance on her wedding day.
- Seeing the state employee take his scraper to remove the old inspection sticker, indicating that your car passed.
- Bernadette talking to her “little man,” Luke.
- The first taste of chocolate on Easter morning after 40 days of abstaining.
- Walking across northern Spain on the camino to Santiago de Compestela.
- The cousins doing Irish dance as Celtic Cross plays the music at a wedding.
- When she laughs at your jokes; and gazes into your eyes adoringly.
- Margaret Rose Laracy delivering a valedictory address.
- Paul Anthony, entering the Belmar bar dressed like Russell Crowe the Gladiator in the Coliseum and announcing: “I am Maximus Decimus Meridus; Commander of the Armies of the North; General of Felix Legion; loyal servant of the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius; father to a murdered son; husband to a murdered wife; and I will have my vengeance, in this life or in the next.”
- Grandchildren.

I invite and encourage you, loyal blog reader, to make your own list of such premonitions of our flesh in glory. It will inflame you with appreciation, gratitude and praise; and it will whet your appetite for heaven.