It's been different lately...and I long for final change!

Sorry that I haven't posted in quite some time, but aside from the busyness of the church plant, our family has changed. Just over two weeks ago we brought a sweet little 19 month old boy home from Children's Hospital.  The reason we brought him from there is because he had been in for 10 days for an infection.  He unfortunately knows that hospital all too well as he has cystic fibrosis.  Before we got him, we didn't know much about this disease, but we are learning quickly and we still have a lot to learn.  If you want to know more about the disease the best place to go is here.  (Sorry no picture right now...not positive the rules for foster children...I'll figure that out and get one up...he's absolutely adorable!!!)

As I was typing I had to head back upstairs because he started crying.  For him, when he does that after being put to bed it is not because he woke up, but because something hurts.  He has a tendency to vomit what he just ate...especially if he burps and coughs at the same time.  The trouble with that (besides the sheer grossness) is that he needs more calories than most kids.  It goes with the disease.  It's so hard to see this precious little boy like this.  When I get him in the morning and his lungs have gathered more mucus, he coughs and turns red and shakes.  It's so hard to watch!

As I was holding him tonight I just kept praying and hoping that God would do something.  Why is this little boy's body so broken?!  Why does he have to have this?  Why doesn't God come back and put it all right?  It makes me long for heaven.  Maybe that's part of this little boy's role in my life - to help me long for heaven...to long for completeness...to long for a world where there is no sin, no death, no mourning, no crying, no vomiting, no cystic fibrosis!!

Read Revelation 21.  Long for God.  Long for His return. Long for no more sickness.  

21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. ² And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. ⁴ He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” 

⁵ And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” ⁶ And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. ⁷ The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.   (Revelation 21:1-7)