My sister in law and her husband are traveling "home" today from Colorado to New Hampshire.
Our teammates' daughter and her husband are traveling to Uganda today from the USA to be "home" with the rest of the family - all together for Christmas.
Our friends here are traveling to their villages to be home for the holiday week. For a Ugandan, home is where the family is. Our baby is named "Otim," meaning "born away from home" because he was born away from our family home (the USA).
And our dear adopted grandma in the USA has just traveled home - for the last time - to her eternal home. She is celebrating Christmas with the origin of life this year. She is home, where Christ is celebrated every day.
Is that the home you're longing for this Christmas? Are you teaching your children to long to be home with Christ? Is that a higher priority in your family than wrapping the gifts and baking gingerbread?
I fail at that daily and rely on God's grace to fill in my adequacy.
I have posted on my wall in front of my computer Colossians 3:12-15. It's scribbled on by an anonymous two-year old, yet it says, "Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy, and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful."
Let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts as we long for our eternal home!
Our teammates' daughter and her husband are traveling to Uganda today from the USA to be "home" with the rest of the family - all together for Christmas.
Our friends here are traveling to their villages to be home for the holiday week. For a Ugandan, home is where the family is. Our baby is named "Otim," meaning "born away from home" because he was born away from our family home (the USA).
And our dear adopted grandma in the USA has just traveled home - for the last time - to her eternal home. She is celebrating Christmas with the origin of life this year. She is home, where Christ is celebrated every day.
Is that the home you're longing for this Christmas? Are you teaching your children to long to be home with Christ? Is that a higher priority in your family than wrapping the gifts and baking gingerbread?
I fail at that daily and rely on God's grace to fill in my adequacy.
I have posted on my wall in front of my computer Colossians 3:12-15. It's scribbled on by an anonymous two-year old, yet it says, "Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy, and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful."
Let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts as we long for our eternal home!
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