“Got something funny but sweet to tell you! Yesterday I called, “my Daddy”, age 92, and asked him was he OK or did he need anything before I got home? (I live near by him) I had a pastor (lady) to call me and asked me if I could come to her house and have a cup of coffee and go over some music. Daddy said he was fine and didn’t need anything at that time so I told him what I was gonna do. She lives in the boondocks, so I had no phone signal. He tried to call me after I had been there a while to see if I had left to come home he couldn’t get me. So he calls my daughter and tells her to call me and tell me that I need to come home that it’s late and I can’t see. (I have cataracts on my eyes) She tried to call and couldn’t get up with me but remembered Daddy said I was going for a cup of coffee with someone. She narrowed it down and called Lisa and Lisa told her I was there. She told me what daddy had said, we thought that was so sweet so I left and went by his house, carried him some supper and sat around with him for a while. He was content and went to bed and I left. I just thought I would share that my 53 year old daughter, calling her 72 year old mother to tell her that her 92 year old father said “come home” now! lol”
A sweet story truly! I starting thinking of the caring protective love of an earthly 92 year old father. We may not have an earthly father to call us. Yet, all of us have a Heavenly Father that sent His Son, Jesus, to become a living sacrifice to call each of us to come home for safety. We may have night blindness as well. Maybe with cataracts blinding us from help that is offered to us whatever we may be going through or wherever we may be. “Come Home.”
In 1880, Author, Will L Thomas (1847-1909) from East Liverpool, Ohio penned words to a Hymn that we still sing and share there is HOPE for all! “Come Home” Eternal Hope!
Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling
Calling for you and for me
See on the portals He’s waiting and watching
Watching for you and for me
Come home, come home
Ye who are weary come home
Earnestly, tenderly Jesus is calling
Calling, “O sinner come home”
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so beautiful! So very beautiful. Come for Grace!
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Beautiful message from the link above, reminding us that Jesus is ready and willing to clothe us in righteousness if we surrender to Him🙏✝️
Sweet story of a father’s love for his daughter, and a hymn to start my day listening to, sung by Mr. Alan Jackson 🥰✝️🙏
Good Morning Tammy, we may be hundreds of miles apart this am yet so together as we are both listening to this song sung by Alan Jackson. And sharing in reading stories shared by others as we all give God praise for joining us as God’s family when we wear our Robes of Righteousness.
I was thinking of the many that are up and dressing for work now in the spirit of their jobs. Many will wear spirit t-shirts as I know Debi’s class often does to represent their school plant sales. Sports teams, nurses, restaurant workers and the dress spirit of our joining together for a purpose is so exciting.
And, many of us in these various locations are wearing Robes of Righteousness with the colors so vibrant in an array of “the fruit of the Spirit” as described in Galatians 5.
So comforting and joyful as we join together in our Robes to pray for one another and our families!
I agree with both Sara and Tammy that this Come Home story by Jacqueline Craddock Chandler is sweet.
And I think what you wrote, Sara, and the song you shared as well as the Instagram message weaves it all together to show us how much love, care, compassion and yearning our Heavenly Father has for all to come home to Him.
One thing that stood out to me in the Come Home story was that the 92 year old father knew that night was falling and he put out an urgent call. And the urgency for all to come home expressed by the Father in this blog shows that He, too, knows night is falling (John 9:4) and is giving a call to come.