Home Sick

Have you ever been away from home and missed it so much you became "home sick" for the familiar? One of my sister's and my oldest niece are on a road trip in the Midwest for two weeks. Looking at the pictures my niece has been posting on her Facebook page has made me "homesick" for the Midwest and where I grew up in Nebraska.

Beautiful Nebraska

By Jim Fras & Guy Gage Miller

 

Beautiful Nebraska, peaceful prairie land,

Laced with many rivers and the hills of sand:

Dark green valley's cradled in the earth,

Rain and sunshine bring abundant birth.

 

Beautiful Nebraska, as you look around,

You will find a rainbow reaching to the ground:

All these wonders by the Master's hand:

Beautiful Nebraska land.

 

Seeing the pictures of the landscape, places where we had visited when I was growing up have made me long to see friends that live there. Isn't that how we should be in our relationship with God in longing for the familiar love and comfort that only He can provide? God has created such a beautiful world for us to live yet the majesty of Heaven is unfathomable and we long to see what beauty awaits us when we are in His presence!

 

In Revelation 4, John shares a glimpse of what heaven will be like. John's descriptions are ones that we can't even begin to comprehend. So soak in the beauty of our surroundings and long for the beauty that lies ahead of us in Heaven as we travel our journey here on earth.

 

Elaine Campbell, MA