Day after tomorrow I get to go home to see my mother and my sister. :) It's been two years coming, and I am so thankful that the Lord is blessing me with the trip.
I've been thinking today about loss and gain. I've lost a great many things in a year. But in a year I've gained a great many things. The dearest of which is the knowledge that the love of my Father is always surrounding me. It follows me and carries me along. No one can separate us.
There are things in this life that you can pursue that will bring momentary steadiness of nerves, momentary satisfaction. But God surrounds us with a peace that repeats and repeats His love. Each moment that passes is a continued pledge over you, that no matter where you are He deeply loves you. How blessed I can consider myself that He continues to hold me close to Him and knows me better than I know myself.
I love my husband, I love my children, I love my family, all are from my Father. He has fixed what is broken beyond what any physician can heal.
When I was a little girl, I loved the movie the Wizard of Oz. I dreamed of going over the rainbow like Judy Garland and being in a place of peace, somewhere prepared just for me. I know, and can rest happily in the knowledge that as long as my faith and love of Christ continues there is that place for me. A place in heaven with my Father, and a place where I will only ever know love. I know I have two twin girls there waiting for me. I know those of my family who've gone on before me are there.
I know that the son of God, Jesus Christ, is there. The One who gave it all for me, so that I may be where He is.
And when you think about it, how can there ever be loss when you have gained it all?
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! - 1 John 3:1
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