{"id":1803,"date":"2025-12-18T09:28:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:28:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:28:44","slug":"secretarys-corner-56-december-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/secretarys-corner-56-december-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary&#8217;s Corner 56 &#8211; December 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve recently been listening to music by Phil Wickham. Kind of just random music of his, but I\u2019ve particularly been enjoying the song <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BzJMZom6NBs\">Homesick for Heaven<\/a>. I think it does a really good job of highlighting a very real ache in the human heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes it feels like this life will never be enough. Like it just can\u2019t satisfy all the cravings of the heart. Whether someone believes in the Good News of Jesus or not, I think deep down this is something we all feel. We all want something <em>more.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I\u2019ve talked about this feeling a few times, with different context. This song brought back these reflections, however, as it finally verbalizes something I haven\u2019t been able to name. One of the lines seems to explain this specifically. \u201cThere&#8217;s an ache in my heart, I&#8217;m homesick for Heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Describing it as homesickness just works for me. Because how else do you describe it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s homesickness for a place we haven\u2019t been, but we know is better. A place of joy and worship and forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is something waiting for us and we can\u2019t even fathom what it will fully be like. But it will be worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll leave you with some of the lyrics of another song that highlights this well: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ayEmRj--ecU\">I\u2019ll Fly Away<\/a> by Josiah Queen with Benjamin William Hastings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is a place I long to go<br>Where the pain gets turned away right at the door<br>No one gets sick, no one gets old<br>No more fighting, no more striving anymore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cause I&#8217;m on a train that&#8217;s bound for glory<br>Got friends and family waiting for me<br>And they&#8217;re already singing, Holy<br>Singing, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One day I will fly away<br>Trade these bones for loads of grace<br>And I just can&#8217;t shake this feeling in my soul<br>Heaven is my home<br>This world is a temporary place<br>I&#8217;ll leave it one day\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it does a really good job of highlighting a very real ache in the human heart.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it feels like this life will never be enough. Like it just can\u2019t satisfy all the cravings of the heart. Whether someone believes in the Good News of Jesus or not, I think deep down this is something we all feel. We all want something more.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/secretarys-corner-56-december-18\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13,137,135,12,136],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secretarys-corner","tag-blog","tag-heaven","tag-homesickforheaven","tag-secretary","tag-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}