I just got finished reading The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (hence all the quotes). The book (including the second part) concludes with Christina and her companions crossing the River of Death and being welcomed into the Celestial City. I listened as one after the other, they received messages telling them they were wanted by the King, He wanted them to sit beside Him at a feast, He couldn't bear to be apart from them any more. Hearing these summons reminded me of my own long awaited summons. I feel how out of phase I am with this world. I am moving one way, it another, and there is friction. I want to go home to be with my Father. I am homesick.


But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.
- 2 peter 3:13

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. 9By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
- Hebrews 11:8-10

I went for a walk and the line "Better is one day in your house, than thousands elsewhere," kept reverberating through my mind. I realized that one day with God really is better than a thousand elsewhere because that is where I long to be. I do not want to be anywhere where He is not, I want to be with God. So it really doesn't matter how much time I spend there, one day with God would still be better.