Expectant Waiting

I have started packing my suitcase. Even though I am just the Nana, I am so anxious to meet our newest family member that I can hardly wait! My oldest daughter is expecting her first any day now - well, in truth 10 days ago! So, the whole family is on call, expectantly awaiting Little Miss Bumpkin, as she has become known. Her Mama says that she is just falling in line with the rest of the family. We have a tendency to be - late no matter where we are going!

The whole family is thinking ahead and arranging our days to be ready for that most important call. Nana here has been preparing special things to take with me - vegetable soup, pimento cheese, and of course peaches and butter beans. I am gathering things to wear and share and my camera to capture the memories. I have been calling almost everyday to check in.

Then another whisper comes ~ Are you preparing as expectantly for My coming?

That hit me pretty hard. Am I truly anxiously awaiting the return of Christ! Am I thinking ahead and arranging my days for Him? Have I been making my best effort to take His precious people there too? Am I thinking about what I will be wearing there - will there be a crown for me? What kind of memories I making with My Lord? Am I checking in with Him regularly? Unfortunately, I have not been so faithful. I am more concerned with clothes to wear and pimento cheese.

Father forgive me. Let my focus always be on the eternal and on the most expectant coming of all.

Blessed is the man who listens to me,watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway. Proverbs 8:34