home is where God is

Mel and I are number two-thousand-and-something on the list for walk-in selection! =) Yesterday as we flipped through the list of potential houses, and looked at maps and house layouts etc... it was kinda scary, cos we want to hope that we get this place or that place, but in the end it depends on whether the people in the queue in front of us snap it up first. =b so there's this tension of wanting to hope and wanting to be realistic... but my parents reminded us that what's most important is that we PRAY, and trust that God really does have a home for us. =)

Decided to flip through Psalms this morning, and was hugely encouraged by this passage which I had highlighted for a different context in 2002.


Even the sparrow has found a home,

and the swallow a nest for herself.

where she may have her young -

a place near your altar,

O Lord Almighty, My King and my God.

Blessed are those who dwell in your house;

they are ever praising you.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield;

the Lord bestows favour and honour;

no good thing does he withhold

from those whose walk is blameless.

O Lord Almighty,

blessed is the man who trusts in you.

- Psalm 84:3-4, 11-12