Day 5
I remember my mom saying that the best part of a vacation is always the first day – ’cause you’re there and you still have it all in front of you. I’d add that another best part of any big event is the part that’s just a little bit before, too.
Seeing those Brewers tickets on the bookshelf a little bit before game day. Waiting on your supervisor to approve your final diagnostic report so you can sign it and put it in the file for good. Counting down the last few days until you see your family for the first time in years. Enjoying the confident assurance, the Blessed Hope, that at any moment you may be swept up to Heaven by Jesus himself.
I long for the fulfillment and the realization of my hopes and dreams. But something in me delights in the sweet anticipation, that lively feeling of “not-yet-but-it’s-a-comin’!”
Made for Eternity 
Check 7/11 for a comment. Grandma and I are also full of anticipation to see you and siblings, Lord willing, on Sunday evening, July 29. Also for our new ministry starting on the 22nd.