I WANNA GO HOOOOMMME!

Today was just hard. So, we sat down to dinner and I whined "I wanna go home! I just want to go to Apple Blossom, and go home when I want…" Then we made it a family game. We tried to get the best thing "missing." For example, we miss water from the tap you can drink – then it was one-upped to water and ice cubes from the fridge! Of course, there were lots of loved ones listed, lots of places to play, shop and eat and lots of conveniences. It was funny when we would say things like "I wish we could walk to church. Actually, we live at church, so I guess it would be 'I wish we HAD to walk to church.'"

Things like Abby's pizza in walking distance, biking the loop, the perfect Apple Blossom food/beverage/dessert wish list (like we do that), whole grain bread, traffic laws, Waste Management, fixed and published prices, coins! And then things like being around people who love to do Bible word studies, never having to plug our ears at church, being able to play soccer without getting hit by sticks or rocks, grass and a lawnmower, wanting to sit 'round the firepit.

I think maybe eating chocolate peanut butter ice cream in the hot tub and having a hall in our house that was all our own were the things I was coveting most.

We went on for a really long time and everyone was smiling and laughing. A much needed shift in our attitudes, OK, my attitude. And then, I had to say it. Picture Jesus, bruised and bleeding, being spit upon, dying on a cross and whining "I wanna go back to heaven!!!"

God is good – even on tough days!