Where is home?

Where is home?

In the last month I have caught six international flights, crossed time zones seven times, slept in eight different beds and been in four different countries.  Meanwhile my family is scattered across three different parts of Australia and in Vietnam. As I write I am checked in to fly again to a foreign land today. Late next week I fly to yet a different country and have five beds in eight days.

So, where is home? Is it my official residential address, at which I will spend just seven nights out of 49? Or Singapore where I will spend 10 put of the 49? Or the place where my wife is?

From past reflections I have concluded that:

·       Home is every place where I have lived.

·       Home is where I sleep tonight.

·       Home is my official address.

·       Home is where loved ones are.

These multiple senses of home enable me to make sense of my “where” which contributes to my sense of “who”. Both are important for a sense of groundedness.

That earthly sense of home matters because this life matters.

I also have an eternal sense of home that contributes to my where and who. My eternally real home is with God through his grace in Christ. That has an earthly aspect, for one can be “home” with him here. And it has eternal aspect, for I anticipate the dwelling of many rooms where there is one with my nameplate etched for eternity.

Where is home? It is wherever I am with my God.