Another summer day
Has come and gone away
In Paris and Rome
But I wanna go home
May be surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh, I miss you, you know
And I’ve been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you
Each one a line or two
“I’m fine baby, how are you?”
Well I would send them but I know that it’s just not enough
My words were cold and flat
And you deserve more than that
Another aeroplane
Another sunny place
I’m lucky, I know
But I wanna go home
I’ve got to go home
Let me go home
I’m just too far from where you are
I wanna come home
And I feel just like I’m living someone else’s life
It’s like I just stepped outside
When everything was going right
And I know just why you could not
Come along with me
'Cause this was not your dream
But you always believed in me
Another winter day has come
And gone away
In even Paris and Rome
And I wanna go home
Let me go home
And I’m surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
Oh, let me go home
Oh, I miss you, you know
Let me go home
I’ve had my run
Baby, I’m done
I gotta go home
Let me go home
It will all be all right
I’ll be home tonight
I’m coming back home
I've always enjoyed listening to this song on the radio and as I sat down this morning to do devotions, I was thinking of this song. Not so much about me missing my MI home, more about adjusting to this new apartment in Toronto. I'm working on making it our home. The kids seem to be settling in. James seems to be settling into a routine at work. And I'm trying to put my "Brave" shoes on and take adventures out! I brought a few items like pictures or simple magnolia flower or the recipe box my Dad made me or a small stash of sewing supplies, but I still feel that it's a long way off from being our "home." I have a little list of things I want to bring back, silly things like bath mats, footstools, basket of yarn, knitting books.
God has a way of helping me! He opens my eyes to see what I'm really feeling about something. Yesterday on my notecards by the sink, I read this: "Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up." Deut. 6:7. So while, I'm thinking I need to make this apartment more cozy and homey, instead I needed to be reminded that to make this our home, I need to surround it with prayer, reminding our children that we love God, to tell them why we love Him, and all the ways He has blessed us.
1 comment:
I know you feeling like you are just "staying" at your apt, but all the love and the toys, the chaos and hugs, that is what makes it your "home". Whether it's permament or short-term, YOU make it home, not all the stuff bring from MI. Of course, this is all easier said then done, and I feel the exact same way about our house. We're just renters, we don't own it, so why put too much effort into it?! But I do try, and I do try to remember that the kids only really remember how much time we spent together, the things we did together, not the decorations that are in the house.
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