A New Home
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My life changed after my husband of sixty-six years passed away, ten days before his one hundredth birthday. I had enjoyed caring for my husband.
Now I had nothing to do. So when my youngest daughter invited me to come to live with her, that sounded like a good plan. The only problem was that I lived in California, in the Western United States, and she lived in Maine, in the Northeastern United States.
When the grandchildren were younger, I would visit at least once a year, but now they were all grown and had homes of their own.
One of my granddaughters came to help me get packed and ready to travel across the country. I had not been to my daughter’s home for almost ten years, and I knew the downstairs bathroom, which I would be using, had an old-fashioned claw foot bathtub—beautiful but difficult for a ninety-year-old woman to use. What a nice surprise when I arrived and found the bathroom had been remodeled with a nice shower and grab bars.
The living room had a desk with a computer so I could keep up with my friends and family in other parts of the world, and I even had my own desk phone because I am too old for a smartphone. Instead of being the caregiver, I was now being cared for in every way.
But still, I could keep busy helping my daughter in many small ways with her home scrapbooking business. Now I am thinking of my next home, a home that Jesus promised me many years ago. And not just to me, but to all my family and friends who love Him.
I cannot even imagine all the things that will be there.
As Paul writes, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Corinthians 2:9, NKJV).
The beautiful flowers that appear in the spring and summer and the colorful birds at the bird feeders on the front lawn are nothing compared to what we will have to look forward to in our heavenly home. So, I want to invite you, my sisters around the world, to join me in preparing for our new home in heaven.
No matter how lovely the home we have now, the one we have been promised in heaven will be far better!
Betty J. Adams
