“Home is the person or place you want to return to over and over.”
A sense of home.
Home is seeing 13 beautiful faces in a small dining room. Home is crying in front of those people and seeing their faces so bright and their bodies so ready to comfort you. Home is taking the time to walk to the super market just down the street with your closest ones and buying ice cream, because why not.
Home isn’t just a set building of a place. It’s way more than that.
If you are like me, you might be picturing home as an actual house. Isn’t it crazy to realize how our brains immediately draw this out for us. Your house might have big windows and a spacious garden. Anothers might be a small apartment overlooking a city. But don’t you think there might actually be more meaning behind this word house? Of course the literal definition of ‘house’ is “one’s place of residence”, but classifying it as that only limits the word.
Here’s an example of how home is a place, “Then my people will live in a peaceful habitation, and in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places.” Isaiah 32:18. Surely home is just a place right? This area surrounded by all four walls. So how can a home be a feeling and not just a place in which we live permanently.
Think about being in the house of the Lord. Picture it less literally and more freely. How does this house feel? To me, his house is welcoming and peaceful and everything in between. Now that’s what I want. I want to be able to come to this so called ‘home’ and imagine and feel his ever so present being. It’s almost like taking a deep breath of fresh air and letting it out so nicely. Now can you feel this sense of home? Let me help you even more. Imagine the almighty Lord just standing in front of you. He’s in a literal home with you and in a room only you can see and nobody in the world can see the same thing. What are you feeling? Those feelings are home.
December 8th
