Home – Part One.
There was a time when home was a place of familiarity for me. Then I left that home and spent the next few years appreciating the fact that home was more about key people providing the familiar in the strength of their character and the relational ties we had.
Home then took on a whole new meaning when I finally left my father and mother officially and became one with my wife. We embarked on a series of physical moves that ensured that home to me was not about physical aspects. It was far more about what I contributed to what was being created by the two of us together.
Today I returned back to the place where we live having spent the previous two nights in a hotel in Barnsley for work purposes. I kept in touch with my beloved whilst I was away and that was good. When I walked in the house this evening, though, I was truly grateful for all that my beloved means to me and means to what makes home what it is.
Our daughters hurried down the stairs to greet me as well, and that was beautiful, because now they are as pivotal to what home means now, as my parents were to home back then. They are vital. Yet it was when I looked in the eyes my beautiful wife that I realised that it is being with her that makes home what it is.
I am grateful to God for home. I am grateful for earthly reminders of heavenly realities. Heavenly realities that when Jesus takes residence in my heart and I truly live with that reality the ruler of heaven and earth, makes His home in my heart and takes heaven with Him. I find home with the Son living and His reference to the Father and how the Kingdom come is the heavenly home taking residence within and without.
I am grateful for those pictures, those reflections, those signs of what home is about.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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