There is something about home that makes the soul feel at peace.
Julie and I have been "on the road", in a sense, for the past 7.5 years. The journey has been a good one and it has taught us a lot of lessons. I have loved the churches I got to work with but there is nothing quite like being back in your home country serving the people of your own culture. It is home and nothing on this earth will ever be that. No matter how much I travel, Australia, and particularly Sydney will always be home.
Food is more familiar and somehow tastes better. The tea certainly tastes better. All this could be subjective but I am really feeling this. The sky looks different. How is that? Isn't a sky a sky? The people are somehow more like me. It is nice being a novelty (at least with an accent) but it also great to be back where other people are the visitors and the "aliens" and I am the citizen. It is so good to be close to family once again. To be able to go to a birthday dinner with my son, Ben, like we are going to do tonight. To play with my grandson, Benji. It just feels like home.
All this meditating on what it feels to be home reminds me of God's word when He says, “But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,” Philippians 3:20, NIV.
As much as I savour being at home in Sydney, it is not my ultimate home. It is not my permanent address. It is not my eternal citizenship. I have got to live more like one who is not "at home" in this present life. One who is on a journey heading home, but I am not home yet.
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5 Minutes With George Episode 6
Here is the latest 5 Minutes from George (which is never 5 minutes by the way). My first Australian episode.
5 Minutes With George
5 Minutes With George
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