Such a blessing
to come home – 
after the celebrations,
the journeys and adventures,
the memorials,
and 
the grand events of living – 
to come home 
to the comfort 
of our known spaces 
and
to the safety 
of our own places – 
there we have peace
and
can finally rest our heads
in the familiarity 
of our own beds.


It is also true that 
as peaceful as it is – 
this home of ours – 
it is not
where we are truly led
where we are fully fed – 
for that place is not a place at all – 
that place is in the heart of the One
whose home has no walls
and is open to everyone. 

*With thanks for Matthew 8:20 and Luke 9:58