Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Suffering from a kind of homesickness

The Bible never belittles disappointment...but it does add one key word: temporary. What we feel now, we will not always feel.  Our disappointment is itself a sign, an aching, a hunger for something better. And faith is, in the end, a kind of homesickness - a home we have never visited but have never once stopped longing for.

Philip Yancey, quoted in "A Place Called Heaven," page 13