homesick for heaven

It’s when you grow up on the Atlantic seaboard, and get relocated to landlocked Nebraska cornfields.  It’s that long-awaited return to the coast, when that familiar saltiness of the air reaches your nostrils before seagulls are sighted, and you know that you’re home....

eternal houses & heavenly dwellings

On this Lord’s Day, may we reflect on the following: “Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.  Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our...

where i belong

On one of those rare occasions when I was driving alone in the car, this song by Building 429 came onto the radio: All I know is I’m not home yet This is not where I belong Take this world and give me Jesus This is not where I belong … And speaking of...

when you wish you had what they have ..

  As quickly as I signed into Facebook, I regretted the click of my mouse. Front and center, in perfectly clear megapixels, was the most adorably decorated baby’s room I’d ever seen.  You know, the kind that only exists in magazines. Instantly, my inner being was...

ten moves in ten years

On the 2nd of July, 2002, I heaved my burgundy Jansport backpack over my shoulders, hugged my family goodbye, and boarded a plane en route to Cape Town, South Africa. My plan was to stay for six months. But you know what Proverbs 16:9 says – “In his heart a man plans...

moving day

This past January marked my tenth move in ten years. Among those temporary abodes in the past decade was the furnished home of some missionaries who went on furlough for a year.  Our family had the privilege of looking after their belongings and their dogs while they...