I am reading a mediocre book called The Time Traveler’s Wife. It is about a guy who has a chromosomal deformity and time travels. One minute he is an adult sitting in 1996 and the next it is 1956 and he is a small boy. It is obviously fiction, but for many reasons it is so real to me. The main character, Henry, will find himself fully in the present and the next thing he knows he is transported through time and dropped unexpectedly into another piece and time of his life.
I can sympathize.
It seems just as I get settled and adjusted to my “present” I wake up and find myself in a different “present.”
Yesterday morning I woke up on the floor under a mosquito net and took a bucket bath.
This morning I woke up in a beautiful home in Dar es Salaam overlooking the Indian Ocean.
Tomorrow morning I will wake up on an airplane en route to Ohio.
Which one is reality? I can honestly say I have absolutely NO idea.
But, I do know that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Whatever reality I wake to tomorrow He is there and He is King. Does anything else really matter? He reminds me that He is the Lord My God, who teaches me what is best for me and directs me in the way I should go. (Isa 48:17). So here I am…going His way.
I am headed home to join the party that will send my Grandpa to heaven. His time on this earth is limited, but I know the GLORY that awaits him and couldn’t be happier. Please pray for his comfort and for my entire family as we wave goodbye. Please pray as I travel a bunch of hours to get there. Pray for adjustment and re-entry and all that comes with simultaneously saying goodbye and hello to so many people I love.
I am so lucky to have family all over this earth! More stories to come. God Bless you!
