Temporary Home

This house, that house. White walls, ugly carpet. Growing up a preacher's kid taught me to go with the flow because you never know what to expect, but the living arrangements were always the same. Every house had white walls and the carpet was always hideous. Some houses would have curtains hanging from the windows that we knew was nothing more than something that someone else had not wanted.

My Momma always had a way of coming into the house and within a day or so the house was our home. Pictures were hung, new curtains were bought, she would bake it seemed like almost immediately so that the house smelled like home. It didn't seem to matter where we went it was just always home.

Somewhere along the way we acquired this fork. I don't know when this fork came into our lives but it seemed to just appear out of thin air and it quickly became "my fork." With each move my fork made the journey and with each meal in whatever house I ate with my fork. It seemed as though no matter what happened in our lives, how upside down they were turned or how uprooted we were that fork stayed consistent in my life. I always knew that no matter where I laid my head down, what the kitchen looked like, how big or small the local school was, I always had something that never changed...my fork.

I'm 35 years old and to this day I still eat with "my fork" when I go to Momma's house. It has become quite the joke and everyone steals my fork just to watch me rant and rave but in the end I ALWAYS eat with "my fork."

No matter how old we all get we enjoy the comforts of home. We like the security, the peace of mind. The assurity that no matter where our journey started that morning we can always go home. (Or...to a fork!) But, you know what? This is just a temporary home. This is just a stopping place in our journey. We are assured that there are bigger and better things waiting on us and in my little mind...my heavenly mansion is filled with forks from here to there!

"...Trust me. There is plenty of room for you in my Father's home. If that weren't so, would I have told you that I'm on my way to get a room ready for you? And if I'm on my way to get your room ready, I'll come back and get you so you can live where I live..." John 14:1-4 (MSG)