December 4, 2008
I like to think of this time before Christmas as a journey. So for me, I’m on an Advent journey.
Now most of us are working hard to make a place of rest and comfort, a place we call home. We want a place to come and stop. We want something called normal. We want….
It occurres to me that a common human striving is for THAT place.
But just when we feel liked we’re all settled in, something usually happens to unsettle us. Maybe someone has a change of jobs, it might even mean a move and starting to create home all over again. Or maybe a friend moves, or someone retires, or … and our homes are disturbed. Certainly our economic upheaval is unsettling.
Even when our job is consistent and our home life seemingly stays the same and our neighborhood is constant, something else happens to disturb HOME. It’s called time. Our children grow up and they go to school. We try to fit into our home life the constant movement of our children’s activities. And then they go away to college, or they move out with a new job because they now have their life apart from us.
Home doesn’t always feel like home. And we struggle to re-establish HOME.
What we don’t understand is life that is a journey. We can emphasize it during this time of year, but our journey lasts our whole life long.
There’s a great saying, “Home is where the heart is.” What we fail to see is that we were at home at the beginning of time as we were at one with the heart of God. But sin created a chasm and I’m convinced that we have been searching for that HOME which is the heart of God ever since. And because we can’t find it, God chose to make it easy for us by dropping, not just into our world, but into our lives through His Son.
Advent is about journeys, not only God’s journey to us, but also our journey to him. Who has come the farthest distance? That’s what I’m celebrating as I journey toward HOME.
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