Later today, my oldest son will come back home from college for a little while. He'll just be here overnight and then head back tomorrow. As a college junior, he is busy with homework, college activities, sports, and studying.
It made me reflect on the restorative power of going home, and how it feels even now when I step out of the car and into my old neighborhood. Sitting in the living room of family, talking about old times or catching up on friends is an almost magical potion for releasing the worries of life.
This summer, I had the chance to do that while my younger son and I went on the road to visit colleges. We mapped a route that took a short detour to my South Jersey home town, then wound its way to northeastern Ohio where some of my Dad's family lives. It was a joyful time for me and my son. He met people he had only heard about, saw places and ate things that I've described for years.
I was a new woman by the time I got home, refreshed by the outpouring of love and affection from family. I was renewed, restored.
Imagine how much more powerful it will be when we go home to God. We'll get to visit with Jesus, talk about friends and family, and feel the most enormous outpouring of love - beyond anything we can imagine, I'm sure. We will get to renew our bonds of love with family that have gone home before us, and we will bask in the no-worries, you're home feeling of heaven that God's grace has given us. When we go home to God, it will be forever and the busy-ness of our earthly lives will drop away for all time.
Tell me, what do you do to restore yourself? How do you find refreshment here on earth? And what do you look forward to the most when you go Home?
It made me reflect on the restorative power of going home, and how it feels even now when I step out of the car and into my old neighborhood. Sitting in the living room of family, talking about old times or catching up on friends is an almost magical potion for releasing the worries of life.
This summer, I had the chance to do that while my younger son and I went on the road to visit colleges. We mapped a route that took a short detour to my South Jersey home town, then wound its way to northeastern Ohio where some of my Dad's family lives. It was a joyful time for me and my son. He met people he had only heard about, saw places and ate things that I've described for years.
I was a new woman by the time I got home, refreshed by the outpouring of love and affection from family. I was renewed, restored.
Imagine how much more powerful it will be when we go home to God. We'll get to visit with Jesus, talk about friends and family, and feel the most enormous outpouring of love - beyond anything we can imagine, I'm sure. We will get to renew our bonds of love with family that have gone home before us, and we will bask in the no-worries, you're home feeling of heaven that God's grace has given us. When we go home to God, it will be forever and the busy-ness of our earthly lives will drop away for all time.
Tell me, what do you do to restore yourself? How do you find refreshment here on earth? And what do you look forward to the most when you go Home?
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John Fox
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