And when I saw it, the tears came. Because I realized what I'm longing for isn't here. It's home - Heaven. Because God imprinted His very image on me (on all of us, by the way), and that very imprint just aches for HOME with the One who made me. I thought of this quote, and I think it sums up what I'm not so eloquently trying to say:
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same." C. S. Lewis
If you're in the same boat as I am, just searching for that desired thing and not stumbling upon it, just think... It just might be Jesus and the place He's preparing for you that is your aching desire. We'll get there.
Here's a song Brooke Fraser wrote titled "CS Lewis song".
And just because I love brooke fraser, I'm including "Albertine", too.
In the meantime, I'll enjoy the echoes of His very image. The blessings He's so showered on us. 
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