To behold the New Jerusalem is to see life on earth differently. It is a vision that like a good "mother" (v. 2) comforts us, helps us endure present trials. John Wesley's mother Susanna writes: "But we are to understand by the life everlasting a full and perfect enjoyment of solid inexpressible joy and felicity... those dark and mysterious methods of providence which here puzzle and confound the wisest heads... shall be there unriddled in moment; and we shall clearly perceive that all the evils which befall good men in this life were the corrections of a merciful Father...