We are foster parents for teenage girls. One of the girls that has been with us for a year is moving back with her parents this week. That is an exciting success, because the parents and the girl will function as a family again.
It is mixed with sorrow, however, because we have to back out of her life so the family can get reestablished. We will be able to talk with her after her 18th birthday a year and a half from now.
I was reminded of the beautiful way God touched my heart when our daughter Sara moved to Kazhakstan. The thought came to my mind, "What is 3 years compared to eternity?" That thought calmed me when Sara left, and it calmed me this week when we had to say goodbye to another child for a year and a half.
An eternal perspective really makes the relatively short separations here more tolerable.
I had a great aunt (Eula) who's husband died when they were in their early twenties. She died at age 90. After almost 70 years of separation they are together again. What is even 90 years in relation to eternity.
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