Add it to the list

Well, we are down to one more week in Guatemala. There have been times when we couldn’t wait for this week to get here and times when we didn’t want it ever to come. But no matter what we want or don’t want, it is here. It is here and it is a wonderful feeling. It is here and it is a horrible feeling. Bittersweet doesn’t even come close to describing the feeling, because it is so much sweeter than sweet and so much more bitter than bitter.
For those of you who like to travel overseas, especially on mission trips, and for those of you who go on mission trips, especially overseas, you know the feeling of never really being 100% content. When you are home, you long to be in the other country. When you are in the other country, you long to be home. As I was thinking about this phenomenon and discussing it with Scott it made me long for Heaven. It gave me another item to add to the list of why Heaven will be so marvelous. It was another mark in the “why I wanna go” tally.
See, in Heaven, this is the only place where this feeling will be satisfied. This is the only place where we can be and not be longing to be elsewhere. This is the only place where we will get to be with the people we love back home who have never been to Guatemala and the people we love in Guatemala who have never been to Indiana.
How funny that the Lord brought us to Guatemala from Indiana to give us another reason to want to leave this world.