take me home.

May 10, 2010

So.  After a year away at school, I’m home.  It’s raining.  I’m thinking.

This year was so full, so rich with blessings.  I am so grateful to the God who met me here, who filled my deepest needs, who never left me.  He was good in bringing wonderful people into my life, in teaching and challenging me through these people.  He was good in giving me precious afternoons alone in the woods to see Him more clearly in creation and embrace the rare, sweet quiet all around me.  He put a group of 5th graders in my path to remind me what it’s like to be a child.  And then he brought me back home.

I was less than faithful.  I spent much of my time dwelling on me.  My wants, my desires, my “needs”.  Whether or not I was measuring up, whether or not I was as special as that girl or I had it all together like that guy.  Fortunately he loves me deeper than that.

This summer is about me and Him.  I want my desire to be for Him alone.  He deserves so much more than that, but that’s what I can give, by His grace!

Home is here, but it’s also with my Heavenly Father.  And that home is eternal, everlasting, unconditional.

Lord, remind me of the home I have with you!