…Now, the New Testament parallel in this passage is that we as believers are exiles here on this earth. The Lord calls us to saturate ourselves in the culture and live for Him on this earth well, waiting for when He will call us home. I am all about this. I ache for my home in Heaven…

My dear, old friend is a funny one.

She stays too long and leaves too fast. She has a way of making me enjoy her company, but at the same time wish she would hurry up and leave… But then I blink and she is gone. How could it be so? Where could she have gone?

…I read about my thoughts during my dad’s brain tumor.

I wrote, “Thank you for giving dad a brain tumor. You changed and grew me and my family SO MUCH through it. It taught me about how to go through something hard, how to cling to You, and how to comfort someone who is going through something hard.”…