I am so looking ahead to next week. We are going to be able to hug our California family, son, daughter-in-love and two grandsons.
Tomorrow I am making what my youngest grandson has labeled “Idaho Cookies.” They are really a Belgian cookie called a gullette or galette. They are made two at a time in a special iron I ordered from a store in my native Pennsylvania from a recipe handed down from my father’s family. It is what I do when I know we are going to be together.
To be together again with family is such a blessing. I will celebrate and cherish each minute we get to spend together. The hardest part will be separating again. As I get older, it seems in this life there are just too many separations.
But God. As I was reading Peter’s first letter, I was reminded this morning that believers have a living hope – that living hope promises a time when separation will no longer be a word in our vocabulary. Instead, we will embrace a salvation and an inheritance now waiting in heaven for us.
“Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and into an inheritance that is imperishable, uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heaven for you. You are being protected by God’s power through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.” [1 Peter 1:3-5 HCSB]
I am looking forward to that time when we are once again able to hug our loved ones who have gone before us in Christ Jesus!
