detour

I've been pondering a lot about home lately. Where is home for me? I was born and raised in Toronto for 23 and 3/4 years, left to study in Ottawa for 8 months, and now, I am currently in Philadelphia, 3 months and counting. Where will I end up next? I'm not too sure. At the end of my 2 years here in Philadelphia I'll be doing residency. I haven't really decided on where yet, but I've narrowed my choices to Vancouver, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, LA, or Miami. So I could be on the move again. So where is home? In my mind, I say Toronto because that is where my family is, where my friends are, where everything is familiar to me. But yet, everything is not as familiar. Its interesting to see how things change when you are away. When you are with certain people in a certain place, you don't notice how much you and your group changes. The longer I am away, the more unfamiliar things seem to me back in Toronto. Philadelphia is starting to grow on me. And I have realized that it is more about the people than the city. The city isn't all that glamorous and honestly is pretty dangerous but what does it for me is the fellowship and the people I've met here. The more time I spend with them, the more familiar the city becomes, the more like "home" it feels for me. But what happens when I move again? Will my home be different? And then I remembered something - Home is Heaven. Life is a detour.

This picture depicts how I'm feeling really well. Life is a detour on our way to heaven. Heaven is where it's at. God brings you places in life to meet people, to have an impact on people's lives. Light is coming to destroy darkness. And God puts us on earth so that more of the earth would be filled with light. I've been thinking a bit about blogging, and what it means to me to blog. And I realized that my blogging wasn't very purposeful. I didn't have a vision or a direction. So I've decided to blog about my life and how (hopefully) it is bringing light on this earth. As I noted before, I think life is a detour God gives us on our way to heaven. And I hope this blog does this. I pray that the events of my life that are depicted here, will help others see heaven more clearly.

I long for heaven. I know that at the root of it all, heaven is what I long for. That is probably why people say that I'm so optimistic all the time. People say that I can always see the good in the bad, that I can put bad situations in a positive spin. And I believe I can do that because heaven gives me that hope. That no matter how messed up life is heaven is always at the end of the road. Life is just a detour. I choose to enjoy the scenery while we're here.

Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.
~2 Cor 5:1-3