Homesick

I'm kind of homesick for a country

to which I've never been before

no sad goodbyes will there be spoken

and time won't matter anymore.

Beulah Land I'm longing for you,

and someday on thee I'll stand

There my home shall be eternal.

In Beulah Land, Sweet Beulah land

What a week. My heart aches this week for my heavenly home. The place where there's no more pain, no more sorrow, no more death...just no more ugly.

Saturday afternoon my cousins lost their precious Papaw to a long illness. Saturday night a co-worker of mine, Becky Jones, was killed in a motorcycle accident about a mile from her fiance's house. Today, Kaye Jones won her long battle with cancer.

Papaw was older and lived a great life, but all those years his family had with him makes it that much harder to say goodbye (for now, anyway ;). Becky left behind two beautiful pre-teen kids (and an office full of people who really need her!). Kaye left behind a precious husband and beautiful little girl.

My solace in all of this is that I KNOW without a shadow of a doubt that everyone I mentioned above is a child of God. Praise God for that! I know that in the blink of an eye I'll be there rejoicing with them. That doesn't make it any easier in this life, though. Please join me in remembering these families in your prayers.

I read MckMama's blog last night about precious baby Stellan, and I think she really sums up everything I would love to be able to say about these situations I have been praying for. I could never say it as eloquently as she did...

Click here to read what she wrote.

My God is a sovereign God. He is the God of all things ugly. Because of this I rejoice. I can rejoice in ugly because I serve a sovereign God who will never leave me or forsake me.

Cancer still sucks. Motorcycle accidents still suck. But my God is the God of all of this. For that I will praise him!