I drove up yesterday to spend a few days with my son who is the Spirit Coordinator/Dance Coach for Stephen F Austin State University. He's busier than I am, LOL!
But never too busy for a special guest to share with us something she treasures....
The Treasure of Home
“There’s no
place like home…”
In the movie
The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy whispers this
phrase to herself as she taps together three times the heels of those magical
ruby slippers. She repeats the phrase when she returns from the Land of Oz
saying, “Oh, Auntie Em – there’s no place like home!”
That
fictional Kansas farm girl was right. There is no place like home.
And yet,
home – returning home, being home, finding home – can be a complicated process.
You’ve
probably also heard the phrase, “You can’t go home again.” It comes from the
title of a novel by Thomas Wolfe, and in part, the book deals with how the
passing of time prevents the author from going home again.
Not being able to go home again – that struggle is true for a
lot of people. Sometimes they’ve been uprooted so many times – like the heroine
in my novel, Crazy Little Thing Called
Love – there is no “home” to point to. Maybe home disintegrated because of
divorce or death. Or maybe their childhood home was a place of pain. Why would they
want to go back?
Right now, I
have to accept that I can’t go home again. Unforeseen circumstances have
separated me from my family of origin. I never imagined this heart-pummeling heartache.
I have to trust that God knows what’s going on right this moment – and that He
also knows how things might change for the better in the future.
I am thankful
that, even as I face the unwanted reality barring me from that one sense of
home, He has provided me home here and now – with my husband and our family.
This home is where I belong. There’s no need for
pretense or defense. This is where the comfy clothes go on and masks are to be
left outside.
I bought this
wooden sign a couple of years ago. It hangs on a wall in my home in the midst
of family photos. It describes home best:
In this home
…
We do second
chances.
We do grace.
We do fun.
We do
mistakes.
We do I’m
sorrys.
We do loud
really well.
We do hugs.
We do
family.
WE DO LOVE.
There is no
other place like this home in my life. No matter where I go, coming home is the
best part of any trip. Walking through the front door, I whisper, “I’m home.”
And all is
well.
Beth K. Vogt is a non-fiction author
who said she’d never write fiction, the wife of an Air Force physician who said
she’d never marry anyone in the military and a mom of four who said she’d never
have kids. Vogt believes God’s best often waits behind the doors marked
“never.” A 2015 RITA® Finalist and a 2015 and 2014 Carol Award finalist,
her 2014 novel, Somebody Like You, was one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Books of 2014. She lives in Colorado with
her husband, Rob, and their youngest daughter.
For more information about Beth, visit her website,
become a fan on Facebook
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and Pinterest.
Sounds like the perfect read and so appropriate since I am not at home right now LOL!
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