The Sounds of Home

My oldest daughter Kasey and I just returned from the trip of a lifetime.  We had planned it since she was a little girl.  We spent eight days in London and Rome – just her and I!  And for the record, I recommend doing a trip like this, one-on-one, with each of your children – it’s a wonderful “right of passage”.  Lot’s of fun, great talks, and memories that will last a lifetime!

But… after 20 hours of traveling (London Heathrow to Boston to Dallas to Lexington – with delays) I’m tired!  So, I canceled my early morning appointments to unwind and get ready for the day and long evening.  My body is tired, but my mind is still on another time zone – so laying here in that half asleep – half awake zone, I’m listening to the familiar sounds of home.

The noise the ceiling fan makes as it cools, my dog barking outside, the drip of my shower (I must fix that), the sounds of the kids in the cal-de-sac shooting a basket or two before school, the birds outside my window…  These sounds make me happy – they warm my heart – they brighten my day.  Why?  They are familiar – they are the sounds of home.

My mind drifts to another home – a home I’ve yet to see.  Not sure how I’ll get there.  Some people’s transit involves a hard fight with cancer, while others a quick goodbye to earth through a heart attack or accident.  Maybe mine will be still different – meeting Jesus in the air in the rapture.  Not sure how I’ll get there – but I KNOW I’ll arrive – and on time for this one!

I wonder what those sounds will be like?  Angels wings rubbing together… a chorus of praise to Jesus in languages unknown to me now, music sung and played in every style imaginable, the ripple of the crystal river… and of course the voice of my father who’s already there, saying I love you – my unborn child’s first words to their dad, my grandmother’s laugh – and Jesus saying, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant”.  All wonderful sounds of home.

But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.  Philippians 3:20-21

 

 

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