It Takes Time

In thinking about what it will be like to move, I honestly have had a hard time really processing it. It takes a lot of time for it to finally sink in. We won't see our friends' faces for 2 years. We won't see our Moms for 2 years. Won't play catch with my Dad for 2 years or hear Beth's dad's funny jokes. We won't see green, green mossy Washington forest for 2 years.... the list goes on. Yet, these things are distant and difficult enough that it is hard to get them through my head. After all, there is plenty to do in the meantime (UW, SCCC, Prep for the move etc.).

Yet, despite the thickness of my head one of the things which has been especially piercing and, praise the Lord, comforting has been a GreenLake Presbyterian rendition of the hymn "No Other Lamb".

Lord, Thou art Life, though I be dead;
Love’s fire Thou art, however cold I be:
Nor Heav’n have I, nor place to lay my head,
No home, but Thee.

This has been such a good word for me; that Christ is our home, and that really all those we hold dear could have been taken away from us in the blink of an eye. This scripture has been on my mind as well, Mark 10:29-30

Jesus said, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life."

It is good to be His child. Not only will we see our dearest brothers and sisters in Christ in heaven, but we will eat at our Lord's table, and feast with our hope: Christ Himself.

We can use prayer for this, as well as our families, and our friends who will be sorrowed along with us. Please pray for us.