"Home is where the heart is." I believe that. When we lived in Spain i was "homesick" for California. Now in California, I have my "homesick" days for Spain. And with Micah and family in Shanghai, I've plenty of "homesick" for China days... My heart is home in all these places. That's why when I read this C.S.Lewis quote, I read it over & over and loved it right away...
"The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of this world; but joy, pleasure, and merriment he has spread broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and pose an obstacle to our return to God; a few moments of happiness, of love, a landscape, a symphony, a merry meeting with our friends, a bathe, or a football match, have no such tendency. Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home."
At the end of my father's life the family gathered in his cc unit room. We'd talk and sing to him. Sing "This world is not my home." --an old favorite of ours. He knew where he was going, to heaven, to his real home. I love my life, my "merry" days with family & dear friends and the hard days as well. But I long for the real, eternal, heart home of heaven...
About Me
- Rhonda Sittig
- Brea, CA
- Larry and I live in a small house under the green maple trees. It is an orderly place, filled with books, chocolate cake and memories. We have four children, now scattered. Micah and his Jodi, in Shanghai with 2 dear girls. We dote on their every long distance video. Aaron & his adorable Jessica work at facebook and live in SF. Ani and Brian live in a pretty row house in SF. She spends her days at Creative Commons and Brian is an Apple engineer. And Laurel, after wandering the country, has settled in SF as well, adding her creative spark to Photojojo. My day by day job is teaching 3rd grade, satifisying when a child masters long division or reads through Harry Potter. But my vocation is the people I love, my family, (What a joy to set extra plates around the table when kids are home with us!) and the women I meet with to talk and pray each week. Joys, such as kid's weddings, big accomplishments, new grandkids, insights from God's word tie us together-- as well as heartaches of unexpected surgeries, marriages gone awry, job problems. I thank God for the best parents, 4 dear children, friends I can grow old with and a home and life with my Larry. God is good.
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