I've been feeling so emotional lately. It seems like everything makes me cry. I sit down to read my Bible, and I can't even get through the first verse without weeping. It's not that I'm sad or depressed, just extra sensitive to the Spirit is the way I would describe it. Is anyone else feeling this way lately? I cry, but it's not always sorrow or sadness behind the tears, sometimes it's joy, longing, love...you name it, I've probably felt it and cried over it this week.
I feel like Jesus is so close, Heaven is so close, all of my brothers and sisters in Christ are so close...it just overwhelms me. I love you all, and I can't wait to meet everyone and party!
There's got to be a reason I've been feeling this way. Can anyone else relate?

Shelby, I know what you mean. Sometimes it's just shear joy and thankfullness in my heart that the tears will start to flow.

Shelby and Mary, me too. This morning on the way to work the radio station played a wonderful old hymn sung by Johnny Cash and June Carter. It was "Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling". The faces of several family members who passed away in the last three or four years flashed in front of me and I couldn't stop crying. It seemed like they were so close, the heavenly crowd of witnesses. We will be with them soon.

Mary and Texas Sue,
Thank you for your comments. I have experienced those exact feelings. It's just that normally I would only get overwhelmed with those feelings and emotions every once in a while, where this week it has been almost every time I think about Jesus, or try to pray, or read the Bible. I have been feeling His presence and love so intensely lately, and it overtakes me. I feel like He is so close! He is coming for us soon! Praise Jesus!!!