Dawn Street (12 Mar 2008)
"Dear Chip"


 
No, it is not just you.  I have the same feelings.  My family and friends look at me strangely as if to say "There she goes again..."  I still forward emails, write emails and try to talk about it, but I feel it is futile.  They are not listening and most probably just delete me.  I know some do.  That's okay.  I see what I see. I hear what I hear.  I know what I know.
 
I am so ready to go home!
 
This may sound strange.  I have never feared death.  I fear pain!  I don't fear death.  I remember some years ago I was in the hospital room with a dear Christian friend who had been told he had only months to live.  I made the statement that I envied him because he would be in Heaven soon.  He was not pleased with my comment and I felt sorry I had made it.  I wasn't oblivious to his pain.  (As I said, pain is something I fear - and I have a very high threshold of pain.  Never take the pain pills I am prescribed.)  I just wanted to go too.
 
I just want to go home.
 
And when I read things on this site that say you won't be raptured if you have not won x number of people to Christ or you won't be raptured if you have financial problems or have filed bankruptcy or have been divorced and remarried (but not to the first spouse) - I want to weep.  I don't read anywhere in my Bible that Jesus said "Come unto me, except for you and you and you."  He did not make any exceptions.  He said Watch and Wait.  Be in the world but not of the world.
 
I want to go home !!!!!!!
 
This world is not my home.  I am just passing through.  If Heaven is not my home, oh Lord, what will I do?  The angels wait for me at Heaven's open door and I won't be alone in this world anymore!  (Paraphrase of an old hymn)
 
Come now, Lord Jesus!!