FIVE CHICKENS AND A DISHWASHER

Ed and I and the “kids” are really looking forward to moving into a new home. We're starting to plan where we'll put things and I'm savoring filling up the many drawers and cupboards in the kitchen and using a dishwasher for the first time since our first apartment nearly 30 years ago. Ed is getting to know the 5 chickens as he visits them every day. He's been dropping seeds in “his” new garden with anticipation. We're trying to keep from running over there to look things over, to get to know every nook and cranny and and the “lay of the house and land.” Hopefully, all this excitement will soon motivate me to get packing!

Today as I read Scripture portions in my Daily Light devotional, I was reminded of an even more exciting prospect: “The blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ” - “the restoration of all things” - “the redemption of our body” - to “be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” - to “appear with Him in glory.” WOW! That makes our new house look minuscule, a tiny step in a much bigger plan.

Even before I was able to transfer the above from paper to screen, we were informed of a possible delay in our plans for moving. We know that at any time God could completely change our plans. And that's OK. We still have MUCH to look forward to. That's why, like the apostle Paul, we can “press on...reaching forward” as we “press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” The move upward is a done deal and will be worth the wait. Have you started packing for eternity?