A Ramble About Valhalla Calling

It is perhaps strange that one of my new favorite songs is "Valhalla Calling." This is the title song to Assassin's Creed: Valhalla. Needless to say, it's not a "Christian" song in the slightest in terms of its lyrics, but it's a great song for getting work done like hand grinding the feed for the chicks.
     While the song celebrates the life and culture of the Vikings portrayed in the A.C. game, what it is ultimately describing is the pull towards the eternal as the driving force behind a person. The chorus of the song, sung joyfully and triumphantly goes, "The echoes of Eternity, Valhalla calling me. To pluck the strings of destiny, Valhalla calling me." And just to reinforce the point, the final verse sings, "Fires are rising and the bells are ringing, Glory take us into Odin's halls, Golden glimmer and the sound of singing
Asgard's call."
     The whole point of the "heroic" culture here presented is just this, to achieve glory and die as a warrior to be received into Asgard's hall with your warrior brothers. There is a pull towards that eternity which drives them to achieve more and more heroic (though not necessarily "good") feats for this end.
     While Valhalla may be an ancient fiction from a warrior/pirate culture, eternity is not, and neither is the pull towards it. The Scriptures say that we, as human beings, are made in the image of God. There is a fundamental part of us as human beings which originated with the Eternal, and feels the pull, the draw back towards unity with the Eternal. There is an echo always in our subconscious that calls us. For some it is very subtle, for others it is loud, clear, and strong as we unconsciously hear the singing of the call from the hall of our Father who fashioned us from His own.
     Our Father calls His children home with Him, to make our home with and in Him where we belong, no matter if we are here in the body or out of it. The echoes of eternity resonate and pound within our very beings as they call us to turn towards our Father, and do those things which reflect Him, His nature and His very Being.
     Pay attention to those echoes. Pay attention to the Eternal crying out within you to be rejoined with its Source. Eternity is calling you to the glory of its own hall.