Emotional Week

Have you ever wanted something to happen really bad but then when it did it became a little emotional to see it all play out?  Well, that is how Sarah and I feel this week.  In June of 2007, Sarah's Dad, Tom Coulter, went home to be with the Lord.  Ever since then we have been in a process of cleaning out his house, work shop, pool area and barn.  We have also had the house for sale for over a year and a half with very little interest in it.  Part of the problem is that the bottom dropped out of the economy about the time Tom passed and the fact the house is 50 years old and not in real good shape.  So with many long weeks and months of mowing that 2 acres and trying to clean it up enough to sell it, we finally have a buyer and will be closing this Thursday.  We thank God for his help and direction in this process but it still had a wierd, emotional feeling yesterday evening when we loaded the last piece of furniture out of his house.  I guess the finalilty of it all set in, especially with Sarah.  This is the only home she ever knew until we were married in 1992.  This is the very place where she learned to talk, walk and even swim.  The place is filled with great memories for her but that is all she is left with now...memories.  When we shut the door on the trailer last night and pulled out for hopefully the last time it was tough but I was reminded of an old hymn we used to sing in church many years ago.  I don't remember the title but it went something like this:
 
"This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through.  My treasures are layed up, somewhere beyond the blue.  The angels beckon me from Heaven open door and I can't feel at home in this world anymore."
 
When you go through something like we have gone through the last two years you begin to realize just how true those words are.  Take a lesson from the living...US...don't store up treasures here on earth because as in this case most of them get sold in a sale or find their place in the local land fill. 
 
Invest in those things that will last.  The Word of God and the souls of men, women, boys and girls.  At COC we are doing that and we look forward to our Bible Club this week as we store up some treasure and our first season of Upward Football & Cheerleading.  Work for that which will last forever and experience a whole different kind of emotion.