FEELING AT HOME . . . WHEN YOU'RE NOT

" Down deep you know you are not home yet.

"So be careful not to act like you are. Don't lower the duffel bag too soon. Would you hang pictures on the wall of a Greyhound bus? Do you set up a bedroom at the roadside rest stop? Do you load your king-size bed on a commercial flight?

"Would you treat this world like home? It isn't. The greatest calamity is not to feel far from home when you are, but to feel right at home when you are not. Don't quench, but rather, stir this longing for heaven."

Max Lucado
Traveling Light
W Publishing  2001
p. 153

My head knows. I wish my heart would catch up.

This earthly place, that I too often complain about, is "not" home. Max Lucado creates great mental pictures to serve as reminders. And . . . he seems to write from a place of knowing.  Not like someone who has watched others pass through the struggles; but like someone who has been there!

Who serves as the greater comforter or encourager? One who is sure he knows the reason and solution to your struggles? Or one who's been there and knows there's a way through--but knows, too, that the way through isn't the same for everyone? 

Growing Toward Home,
Lonnie