Oh, how I long to be home...
I sometimes really feel so strongly that within all of our sadness... the core of it all is simple homesickness.
Apathy, depression, sadness..... I believe it's all just from being homesick and we don't quite realize it.
When there is something wrong, and you just can't put your finger on what it is.. I think it's just simply being homesick.

I know this life is but a moment, but that homesick feeling coupled with uncertainty sure can wear a person out sometimes.
Sometimes, I daresay.... I'm tired of the mystery... and I just wanna go back home..

don't worry, I'm not depressed or anything... just a thought that creeps in every now and again.

I remember once when I was about 10 years old, I drove up to Pennsylvania (from MD) with my grandma to visit my relatives.
My mom stayed home. On the way home, I suffered from a horrible, acute form of homesickness. I was WAILING uncontrollably...
I just wanted to go home. I just wanted to be with my mom. I was unable to be consoled.
I was scared that I would never see my mom again. This feeling just came over me...
and I panicked and I felt like I was dying inside. I will NEVER as long as I live forget that....
and I'll never forget the moment we pulled up to the house and I jumped out and ran to my mom.
My mom would end up dying about 7 years later. The feeling was so strong, that sometimes I wonder....
I loved my mom so much, I often got scared that something would happen and I would never see her again.
Did I know that I would only have her for a short time in my life? Or was I suffering from a more profound feeling of homesickness...

What if I told you that you could go home right now? Without physically dying?

do you mean.. like in my mind, in my heart?

Yes.

I try...
but it doesn't always work.

This is a song that goes through my head when I feel like you do, Sparrow. And yes, Byron, we can "leave" this world at times and enter the heavenlies, but, it is usually short lived or temporary. I just think everyday I live is one day I'm closer to being with the Father, Jesus, and all of you. Oh, what a day of rejoicing that will be!!!



I'VE NEVER BEEN THIS HOMESICK BEFORE
Writer Dottie Rambo

There's a light in the window
And the table's set in splendor
Someone's standing by the open door (open door)
I can see a crystal river
Oh I must be near forever
And I've never been this homesick before
Chorus:
See the bright light shine
It's just about hometime
I can see my Father standing at the door
This world has been a wilderness
I'm headed for deliverance
Lord, I've never been this homesick before
I can see the family gather
Sweet faces, there all familiar
But no one's old or feeble anymore (never grow old)
Oh this lonesome heart is cryin'
Think I'll spread my wings for flyin'
Lord, I've never felt this homesick before
Repeat Chorus (x2)
Lord, I've never been this homesick before

"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:18)

My dog is in the unseen....and yet I see him, and he is with me.
I may not see him with physical eyes, I may not touch him with physical hands...
but he is with me. And we are connected in a far stronger way than we ever could be while on earth together.
He has passed over into a realm, into the unseen, where I too, will be someday (completely).
But for the meantime... we have not been separated because part of me has passed over into the unseen, too.

This, is what I have faith in. I will not be like those without hope. Anything is possible with God.
My dog is here with me.

Our love for each other is the only thing that matters...God says the difficulties (including our mistakes/regrets!) of our life on earth are preparing us, and achieving for us an everlasting glory that surpasses all comparisons.

The unseen is ETERNAL.
and we are together now, though I cannot see with physical eyes, I can see with my heart.

Byron, I now understand what you were saying.
I get it, now.