People say home is where the heart is. I've come to know that it is not a building, structure, piece of land or any material thing. I have come to know that it is truly wherever one is with the people you love.
This past week, Jimmy and I spent a week at the beach with all our children and grandchildren. The time spent with the ones I love the most is what I call HOME. I could have been anywhere in the entire world. But it could not have been with any others except those we were with.
We played games, we walked and looked for shells along the beach, built sand castles, fished and caught 13 large keepers. We watched movies, listened to a little girl (aka Atlee) sing her heart out, and played some golf. Two of us parasailed for the first time, one enjoyed fried fish for the first time and one of us even GOT ENGAGED one early morning (aka Graham & Carissa). We took pictures galore, swam in pools, rode in golf carts and on floats. But most of all...loved being with each other.
Home...here on earth is just temporary though. Those who know our Lord have a new Home, one built just for them and waiting for them. Our Lord says he has prepared a place for us...much better than the one we currently live. This place, before HIM, will be even greater than the time I experienced this past week. The joy I had will be but a flicker compared to the joy I will have before my Lord.
Where is your home? Do you know you have a one prepared just for you, waiting?
I am grateful for the time I spent with those I love this past week...the time I call my earthly home. And I look forward to my future home when that joy will be even greater.
