Home

Some people say that home is where you grew up or where you were born.

Others believe it’s where your family is.

Then there’s the ever-famous cliché…Home is where the heart is.

I, however, had the epiphany last weekend that while all of those are true,

Your home – your real home -- is simply wherever God is.

Let me explain, because I know the thoughts in your head:

‘Umm, God is everywhere. That doesn’t make sense.’

Or maybe you’re thinking,

’Is she talking about heaven?’

And those thoughts are both true; God is everywhere.

That’s not what I mean, though.

And yes, as Christians, our home truly is in heaven,

But that’s not what I mean either.

What I do mean is this:

Wherever God wants you, wherever His will is for you to be,

That’s where home is for you.

That may be your hometown,

Or it may be 600 miles away from your hometown.

This truth is really very elementary,

But I realized it in a more powerful way yesterday.

Several of us girls in my core here at the Honor Academy went with my Core Advisor to her parents' house in Shreveport, Louisiana for the weekend. It was so nice to just spend a couple days in a real home, with a real family. We had home-cooked food and watched movies. But interestingly, it all made me really, really miss Scottsboro --my home and my family.  As we drove back to campus last night, I just sat there and thought about things.  The song “This is Home” by Switchfoot came on, and I actually became glad to be heading toward the Honor Academy again.  Not because I was excited about sleeping in my triple bunk bed or sharing a bathroom with an entire hallway of girls or eating cafeteria food for every meal.  But because I know that this place truly is where God wants me to be.  When I’m here – for now – I’m in His will.  This campus truly is home.