How does one word invoke so much peace?
It's amazing what one little word can do. Ask a total stranger on the street about their home, and watch their expression change, soften, and lose its careworn appearance.
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| My Ideal house has a wrap around porch and enough room for 8+ kids, a husband, and a dog named Murphy. |
No matter where it is, the type of home that makes people relax and smile involves comfort, love, warmth, and care. A place where others will be welcomed and treated like family.
Yet even with all of these things, and more, there will still always be conflict, hurt, pain, fear, and anger. Even in good homes, we are all still flawed and empty, yearning for something more to fill us up.
Yet ask anyone, and they will tell you that they yearn for a place to call Home, even if they've never experienced it before.
So where is our true home to be found? With the people we love? Of course.
Having a soft bed? In the most beautiful house we can find, with a four car garage and a big backyard?
Having a soft bed? In the most beautiful house we can find, with a four car garage and a big backyard?
Not so much.
Our eternal home, of course, is in heaven, but on earth, things are a bit trickier.
Our earthly home is where the Lord leads us, sustains us, guides us, grows us, and brings us to his presence. Whether that be the furthest reaches of Africa, or in your hometown in the Midwest, that is often up to Him.
Where is Home?
It may be better to ask,
what is home?
Our earthly home is where the Lord leads us, sustains us, guides us, grows us, and brings us to his presence. Whether that be the furthest reaches of Africa, or in your hometown in the Midwest, that is often up to Him.
Where is Home?
It may be better to ask,
what is home?
Hanna Elizabeth
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