Returning Home

This gang is back in Minnesota where it will get down to 48 degrees this week.  Brrr.

August 31

While many are gearing up for the last summer weekend of fun, others have returned home to a routine of packing lunches and sending children out the door to school.  I've established a habit of cleaning the house before we go on trips for duel purposes.  One, it's nice to come home from a vacation to a clean house; and two, at my age, if I don't make it back to my earthly home, it will be nice for my husband and children to have a clean house to come into.  

Do you ever think about what it will be like when we arrive at our "real" home? For the past twenty years I loved turning onto Moonriver Lane and making that half mile wooded drive to Shiloh.  It just feels good to arrive here, but I know it's nothing compared to the elation we will experience when we arrive in heaven.  What a comfort to know the best is yet to come.

When we remember we are foreigners here on earth, we realized we were created for heaven.
This snippet of our life isn't our final destination. We are just passing through.

"For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ." Philippians 3:20

"Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God's people and also members of his household."  Ephesians 2:19

"Dear friends, I warn you as 'temporary residents and foreigners' to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls." 1 Peter 2:11

"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were one of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you."  John 15:18-19

"Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God's people and also members of his household."  Ephesians 2:19