I Feel Like Traveling On

Scarf Sister October Blog Prompt-RELOCATING

I've lived in my present home for more then 30 years.  This is what I've always wanted - to stay in one place, a home where memories are made.  A neighborhood familiar.  We have done just that, my girls grew up here and my grand children know of no other place that is grandma and grandpa's. Even though the world has changed dramatically, my neighborhood has remained pretty much the same. For that I am thankful.

In the last few years, my mind has imagined  a different place.  One more suited to people of a "certain age" - meaning a house with no stairs!  I don't know if that will ever happen, there is an awful lot of accumulation that occurs when living in one place for so long.  I suppose on the other hand, it might be freeing to weed out what would go and what would stay, but not today.

I do have a wonderful home to look forward to one day.  I won't have to worry whether or not it has a first floor laundry because my sparkling robe will never be dirty!  Can you imagine?  My husband has a man bib he created by cutting off the neck hole and front of a sweatshirt.  He pulls it over his head and it protects his shirt while eating, especially foods like spaghetti!  No, he doesn't wear it outside the house, although at times it would have saved a nice shirt!  He won't have to worry about spots on his shirts when we're in our heavenly abode!

If I moved from this home to another I would worry and be sad if my family and friends weren't close by.  I would long for them terribly.  Not an issue in my home that Hebrews 13:14 speaks of.  There will be no sorrow or longing there.

Only God knows when my moving day will be.  I will enjoy this home that He has provided - including the stairs my young self thought would never be an issue!  They will provide cardiac exercise until I'm all exercised out!  Till then....like the lyrics in the song Beulah Land, "I'm kind of homesick for a country to which I've never been before".