Home Is Where The Heart Is

For a while, every time we pulled into a parking lot - the church, the grocery store, a gas station - our two-year-old daughter would yell, "WE HOME!" Its funny, because who would think of the gas station as home? But as I thought about it each time she said it, I realized she had a point.

What does being 'home' really mean? A lot of us have a building, our house, that we consider our home. College students live in dorms, a home away from home. But the Bible says that this world is NOT our home. So... what does being 'home' really mean? Since Josh and I have been married, we've moved around quite a bit; seven times in four years, to be exact. Maybe this is why I ask this question. We've never really settled into a certain place, but maybe we aren't meant to 'settle' on this earth.... maybe God is calling us to a higher calling -- to be unsettled in His name. To do His work on this earth until we are really called to our true home.

The saying 'home is where the heart is' is really a great truth. If my heart is on Christ, then my home is with Him, which makes dealing with the crazy of this world a lot easier. So I try to make my heart focused on Christ. 

Next, its easy to go through the motions, and not really be completely into a task we are doing -- if we are asked to take someone somewhere, for instance, and we say yes, but don't really want to. When we decide to have our heart and mind into the task we are performing, we are more likely to get something out of it that we God intended us to get. 

When my daughter yells 'We're Home!' as we pull into the grocery store parking lot, I now just smile, and say "yeah!" as I share in her enthusiasm. Her heart is into going grocery shopping, and her comment reminds me to enjoy the task at hand. She has already learned to be fully engaged in the task at hand, and when Mom can be fully engaged too, grocery shopping turns into valuable Mama-daughter time!