"Home"

The saying is..."Home is where the heart is".

Have you ever thought what exactly "home" meant to you?
For me, it has always meant where my family is...that same living room, that same back yard where memories are made. And "home" is both the place where I grew up or the home I share with my husband.

I was on my way to go running at Bernheim Forest when a song by Rich Mullins played in my CD player ("If I Stand") and made me think of home. Part of his words are: "...If I sing let me sing for the joy, that is born in me this song, and if I weep let it be as a man - who is longing for his home."

And it made me think of what I identify as home. I want to "long" for heaven as my home. I want Christ to be more familiar and more intimate to me so that He would be closer than anyone in my family -- and long for Him and heaven as my "home". To have my heart there....to store my treasures there. And it was also my prayer.

I don't mean this in a way of taking anything away from my home here on earth. I just mean it in a way that my longing for my home in heaven to be that much more.