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thoughts on home

I've been thinking about home lately. I was part of a conversation where one person asked another where they considered home and as I listened to the answer, I started thinking about my own answer to that question. For years now, I would have said Atlanta. Raleigh hasn't really felt like home in years, but Atlanta doesn't feel like home anymore either. Problem is, Nashville doesn't totally feel like home yet either. So I began to feel homeless, and that was quite the weird feeling.

I have come to realize of late that I like Nashville. I've even been tempted to say that I love Nashville, but that seems like overdoing it a bit. A fair amount of this new found affection for Nashville has come in the wake of the flood- seeing neighbors lives' and things I've come to really enjoy destroyed, plus working together towards relief and restoration with members of the community played a large part in that.

I've also been thinking about what it is that makes me love a city. The conclusion I've come to is the people in it. I have a community here, both at school and church, that I'm growing to love. And then, yesterday, over a snowball, Jen asked me what my vision of heaven is. And my vision of heaven is home. A place of rest. A place of unbroken community. A place of comfort. A place of worship, where when I say "It is well with my soul," it is true in every possible way. The place where Jesus is, always. And I so long for that home.

posted by CP @ 6:28 PM 0 thoughts