My car slides down the steep driveway through two inches of fresh snow as I back onto the street. Early morning darkness is the only thing that matches my surroundings of yesterday in Lucerne.
We’re home in Minneapolis for one day. We’ve missed a whole season. Christmas and New Years have come and gone without us. Valentines Day will pass before we’re back too.
The few houses with twinkle lights still shining make me both happy and sad. The carols have been sung, the candles have been lit and familiar Bible passages read. The hugs and laughter and catching up at parties in homes bright and welcoming have all happened without us.
I’m out of sync. Out of place. Our community has gone on without us. Has there been any sense of a hole left where we were?
I’m reminded this is not our “true” home. Will there be a kingdom shaped hole on earth when we die?
We’re human, so we all long to matter to someone, to be missed.
Today, maybe you need to be reminded of how “seen” you are by the God of the universe and, how much you matter.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. Psalm 32:8
“You are the God who sees me,” Genesis 16:13
But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love. Psalm 34:18
Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. Luke 12:7
You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me...
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be. Psalm 139:1-5,16
Maybe someone else needs to know they matter too. Send a text or note? If you haven’t signed up to get my freebie that has prompts for each month and reflections, called “A Year of Grace Notes” you can still get it by clicking here!
This photo and the text that followed were so melancholy and spoke the feeling that so many of us have had at times. Well done! God is still the one with us at ALL times, and yes, we are heading towards our real home at all times…eternity in Heaven. 🙂
Glad you resonated with it! We’re all just “walking each other home”, right?