Each one of our children has a song associated with her - a song that was chosen based upon the events surrounding her addition to our family. As I began this blog I wanted to title it "Something Crazy" to put to use the Steven Curtis Chapman song we have so joyously associated with this newest adoption. But as I tried and tried to get this silly blog thing to let me use some variation of the lyrics as my url address I stumbled upon another song that seemed a better title for this blogging endeavor. A song entitled "This is Home". As I watched its video on youtube, out of mere curiosity mind you, one line seemed to jump off the computer screen and get stuck in my brain. "Created for a place I've never known..." What a wonderful expression of the journey our son-to-be is on. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, he has been created just like that - for a place he has yet to know. A place the Lord has provided for him to run to. A place called home. I will share the complete lyrics of the song below so that you might see the thought in context, or you may do what I did and watch the lyrics roll by on youtube, but however you choose to experience them I encourage you to remember this... Each one of us has been created by our Heavenly Father for a place we have yet to know, a place we will eternally call home. A place where there are no orphans, where there are no diseases, no sorrows, no fears. A place that we call home and that we long to find at the end of this life. For after all our searching and after all our questions once we arrive we will not turn back. As the song states, we are all miracles and we are not alone. Our little boy is out there somewhere, somewhere amidst his searching and the memories, but I pray that he has peace and the comfort of knowing that he too has been created for a place he's never known. Someday a place with the Heavenly Father, but until then a place with us. We love you little one and we are coming to get you. This is home.
This Is Home - Switchfoot
I've got my memories always inside of me
But I can't go back, back to how it was.
I believe you now, I've come too far
No I can't go back, back to how it was.
Created for a place I've never known
Chorus:
This is home
Now I'm finally where I belong (where I belong)
Yeah, this is home
I've been searching for a place of my own
Now I've found it
Maybe this is home
Yeah, this is home
Belief over misery, I've seen the enemy
And I won't go back, back to how it was
And I got my heart set on what happens next
I got my eyes wide, it's not over yet
We are miracles and we're not alone
Chorus
And now after all my searching
After all my questions
I'm gonna call it home
I got a brand new mindset
I can finally see the sunset
I'm gonna call it home
Chorus
Now I know, yeah, this is home.
I've come too far and I won't go back
Yeah, this is home.
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