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Leaving home is, then, much more than an historical event bound to time and place. It is a denial of the spiritual reality that I belong to God with with every part of my being, that God holds me safe in an eternal embrace, that I am indeed carved in the palms of God’s hands and hidden in their shadows. Leaving home means ignoring the truth that God has fashioned me in secret, molded me in the depths of the earth