Going home...

I get to see my family on Friday and I'm so excited. Unfortunately, Anna has to stay here for a fifteen-hour continuing education seminar for her job. But I've been thinking about the family lately because we were talking about it Sunday at church. We compare many things to a family - the church, the military, medicine, and even various support groups, but really nothing is quite like family. It's a wonderful thing that God creates to allow encouragement and exhortation, communion and connection, love and life. And that's the analogy God uses to describe His relationship with us - a family with Him as our Father who is in heaven.

Finally, one quick musical note before I go. If you've never heard Largo from the second movement of the New World Symphony in E minor by Anton Dvorkak, it's a "must-listen". I used to play a basic version of it many years ago and have enjoyed playing the more complicated version lately. The basic version was entitled "Going Home" in the primer book I used to have. I like to think of it when I go to see family...