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This will be brief as I am exhausted from a long day of traveling back from the Northeast, visiting a good friend who is recovering from surgery as well as stopping in on my sister and her family for a couple extra days. As I was coming home this morning on the airplane ride, I did what I do every time. I began to reflect on this most recent journey, how fast time went by, what I did or didn't do that I wished I had, things I said wrong or didn't say at all...all this while listening to my favorite songs on my IPOD. I love to travel. I love to zone out on the plane in complete anonymity and just ponder the recent life circumstances. As I was listening, the song "Come, Lord Jesus" by Andrew Peterson began to play. I do this next thing almost every time I travel as well...a good song finds me, turns my attention to the Lord and just sinks into my heart and I cry. Not out of sadness or despair, but out of a longing to be freed from this world and to see others be freed from it as well, but all the while torn about the lost condition of so many who I would still desire to see come to Christ. It is always an especially meaningful time of prayer as I can then turn to the only possible comfort in my Savior. Our God is a faithful and merciful God, a God who restores the mind and heals the broken. His Words bring goodness and LIFE! Oh, how I want to speak and hear such beautiful words! Disappointments will always come, in myself and those around me, but there is a future filled with perfection. I came across this quote today on another blog I read from time to time, and was so encouraged:
"Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living "east of Eden," always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the Father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast" (Tim Keller, The Prodigal God).