My Sweet Girl

So, I have a daughter that lately seems like an angel.  I mean, really, she cleans up her stuff off the table every time.  She hugs her brother when he is scared of the dark and lets him sneak in her room and sleep in her bed if he thinks monsters are in his closet.  She writes sweet notes to me EVERY DAY...no joke...it's EVERY DAY.  She cheers her brothers on at their football games and does flips for every touchdown they make.  She does her chores.  She does not complain that our house is filled to the lid with boy stuff and that she has to share a bathroom with those dirty, smelly boys.  She is a sweet kid in so many ways. 
Now, I know she is not perfect.  She also gets a bit punky at times.  She cries over things that are not a reason to cry...heck she cries sometimes and does not even know what she is crying about.  She has a hard time letting the past go.  But in the end we are left with a little girl who is as sweet as a lump of sugar and as kind hearted as Mother Teresa.  She is really truly that super of a kid.
And yesterday, well, yesterday was a HARD day for her.  School was rough...friends were mean, she was not listened to, she was scolded, she was "unfriended" and all she wanted to do was go home.  She desperately wanted to go home.

She wanted to simply be left alone and go sit with her mommy and daddy and let them make it all disappear.  She wanted HOME...
                                                       She wanted HOME...
                                                   She wanted HOME!
And I so get that.  
This world is NOT our home.  
This world is NOT our place of comfort. 
This world is full of bad things and bad days and hard stuff.  
But this world is not our home.  
And I can't wait for the day that my sweet girl gets to see HEAVEN and experience the life that she deserved all along.  Her little life has already been 100 times harder than most adults lives.  She deserves more...she deserves HEAVEN.  
And I hope and pray that her heart longs for heaven like I long for it for her.   
She is SO deserving!

And what an amazing blessing to know that there IS a place where all of the pain and hardship falls away.  We have a HOME with our heavenly Father where the things that exhaust our emotions and minds and hands do not exist.  What a blessing!