"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
I’ve spoken about the theology behind the idea of “home” several times (e.g. Paroikia). One of my favourite acapella bands, The Maccabeats, have now produced a musical version of it…
Well I’m going home,
Back to the place where I belong,
And where your love has always been enough for me.
“One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there. We know where we belong, but we keep being pulled away in many directions, as if we were still homeless. ‘All these other things’ keep demanding our attention. They lead us so far from home that we eventually forget our true address”
– Henry Nowen, “Making All Things New”