Several times while I was in Lake Tahoe I said “I want to go home.” When I say “home” it is different from what other people refer to. My “home” even looks different from my family. Yeah we live in the same house but what we consider home is different.
When people ask where is home for you and I tell them Mt. Juliet, TN or for those people who have no idea where that would be I tell them Nashville. But really when I say this it’s not just because that’s where my house is. Home is sitting at the table eating dinner with my mom and brother or sitting on the couch with my mom watching the voice or HGTV. Home is sitting on my best friends bed talking, laughing, and crying about all life is. Home is getting to see my favorite kiddos in the whole world, love on them and constantly remind them how much Jesus loves them and that being kind ALWAYS matters. Home is sitting in my front yard just enjoying the sounds that TN brings. Home is driving through downtown listening to country music (I mean I am from Nashville after all). Home is the 2 hour drive from Nashville to Chattanooga. Home is being at Calvary Chapel and worshipping Jesus. Home is even in Florida with my favorite twins in the world, laying on the beach and eating chipotle or acai bowls. And home is also stepping off that plane each and every time to hug my dad. As I’ve lived I’ve learned more and more that the places I call home seem to be where I feel safest with the people I love most rather than just in the walls of my house.
But Jesus has taught me home is with Him. Home is opening up my bible or sitting down in prayer no matter where I am to worship Him. Home is opening my heart every second of every day to what He has in each moment. Home is allowing Him to use me for His glory. Home is sharing who He is with not only my friends and family but also with any stranger I come in contact with. Home is following Him around the world to serve the people He loves. Home is walking out of the place I feel safest to do His will. Home is hope, knowing that one day I will get to meet Jesus face to face and be with Him forever. Jesus has taught me home isn’t Nashville, TN or even where I feel safest but home is trusting that I’m safest in His arms wherever I am on this earth.
