I just wanna go home...

I don't know why, but suddenly, today, I just started to feel like I wanted to go home. I understand the international student experience a bit more now. There are a number of factors involved with this, but at the bottom of it all is the fact that I don't really belong here.

No wonder we groan (or should groan) for heaven at times:

For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
2 Cor 5:3-5

Eat Anna, Eat

Every morning we do battle with Anna to get her to eat her breakfast. The food tastes good. The food is good for her; in fact it is necessary for life. Sadly, this parallels my Bible reading... my Father has to get after me to eat my daily bread even though it tastes good and His words are the words of life.

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Psalm 119:103

They are not just idle words for you—they are your life.
Deut 32:47a