The farm and my people at home are busy harvesting. I was surprised how much I loved riding in the truck and tractor with my brothers, visiting the field and the warehouse...just like the old days.
I loved the wide open space...seeing the weather move in and move along. I loved being able to hear the surf pound I loved standing in front of the barn that used to house my horse...miserable cuss that he was.
I loved the smell of trucks and potatoes and soil. When I drive in my current countryside and smell farm smells....this is where it takes me....these fields of my mind. This place. The place I grew up and that still holds some of my roots....and people that I have journeyed with. It was especially neat to worship in my "home" church with the people who made promises when I made Profession of Faith. I loved making cards with my sisters and their daughters. To be creative together and inspire and encourage each other...but mostly...just to be in the same room together. So my mind loves both details and wide open spaces, reconnecting with the people. Technology allows us glimpses into each other lives but it's the face to face time that re-roots us.
Wow...the family reunion is so far away.
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You've written so eloquently about home - and that's kind of the conversation that I have recently had with loved ones. We become so attached to our earthly homes, but God longs for us to see heaven as our home - and some of us may be close to that home, others not yet. Life here is so familiar - the sights and smells, the people we know... and it's hard to wrap our heads around the fact that we have a MUCH better home waiting for us!
I've probably taken this post in a much different direction than you meant it - sorry about that! and yet, it's a good reminder that if we love our family and long for familiar places, we'll someday be seeing all of that in all of God's perfection, and it will be the best of everything, always!
I love it when people hijack a thread! it just shows how the Spirit moves. Neat how such beauty can whet our appetites :) Thanks Jannette, for that great thought!
Oh my.. I'm a little teary eyed.
Lovely pics. Lovely thoughts.
Now I miss you!
Family reunion not so far away now! :D
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