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“Perhaps, when one brings a heart unbridled by expectation to him, the working out of his will is bound to feel like that: both permission and commission, an act of obedience and a gift of grace.”

“These dreams of flourishing call back ancient words. "Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce," God told the exiles who were carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon (Jer. 29:5). Their residence away from the city of their longing was not to be spent in barren despair. They had not fallen outside his plan; in fact, they were squarely in it.”

“Jesus said, "In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?" John 14:2).“
“What might happen if I were to regard my temporary home as a place of belonging representative of his—a site worthy of attention, affection, and creativity?”

“And as we travel, its the light from our Home across the sea--the light from his very Person, both before us and within us--that spills out and around our greatest miseries and our dearest hopes, illuminating the losses we carry, and burnishing them with the promise of restoration.”

"And though you have never seen him, yet I know that you love him, At present you trust him without being able to see him, and even now he brings you a joy that words cannot express and which has in it a hint of the glories of Heaven; and all the time you are receiving the result of your faith in him—the salvation of your own souls"1 Pet. 1:8-9 PHILLIPS

“Frederick Buechner writes,"I believe that what we long for most in the home we knew is the peace and charity that, if we were lucky, we first came to experience there, and I believe that it is that same peace and charity we dream of finding once again in the home that the tide of time draws us toward."Homesickness can thus give us a greater capacity to recognize, celebrate, and hope for a Home we have not seen.”