on home

I feel at home here! I have only been in Colorado for two weeks and I feel so adapted and adjusted to this way of life. It will be hard to say good bye to this place and these people. Then I think about my last night in Memphis before I came here. I did't want to leave that place or those people I love so much. I have only lived in Memphis for 3 months and it has really become home to me through the relationships I have developed there. My home has changed so many times over the past few years, from Charlotte, to Boone, to Brazil, to Wilmington, to Memphis, and next to Spain.

When I think of what home is, I keep hearing my Mom's word's when she spoke at the women's retreat in 2003, "Home is a relationship not a place. True home is our relationship with God."

When I read Jesus' word's, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him" ~ (John 14:23) I am so undeserving and so in awe that the God of the universe, by his grace and through his son, would consider his relationship with me "home". In knowing that, I can be sure and secure that I can consider my relationship with God "home".

Then I can be at home no matter where I am. "One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple." ~ ps 27:4

(Above is a picture of my brother John, my sister Amy and I at home over Thanksgiving.)