♫♫ Created for a place I’ve never known… this is home. Now I’m finally where I belong... where I belong. Yeah, this is home. I’ve been searching for a place of my own, and now I found. This is home… ♪♫
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WHAT MAKES YOU HOME?
Aren’t a house and a home the same? They are both places with people living in them. But I’m sure, that there is something distinct in the word ‘home’.
One can say, “I am home,” but not “I am house.” I realized that this ‘home’ is not just a noun – a place, as we all know; rather it is an adjective which describes you. Home is who you are. Home can be found in you. It is you.
CREATED FOR A PLACE CALLED ‘HOME’
It is very humane to look for something where you can be home. People long for happiness, security, peace and comfort. Money and other material things may be the frontline of their needs but a place where they can say, “I am home,” is more than a need but a desire.
You may have all the things that you want – money, the latest gadgets or expensive stuffs, a big house where you live in, a prestigious school where you study, or maybe a big company, you may also be managing a successful business, and you have elite friends whom you hang out with. These are good but a place called home goes beyond all these things.
All of us search for this home. Some people easily have it, some people don’t. Do you believe that we don’t reside in home? It is home that resides in us. It is deep within us. It is love. Love empowers the home within you. You are created to love. You are created to be loved. You are created because you are loved. Home is just always within you. It’s never missing, it’s just that, sometimes, you stay away from it, because of the things that are opposite of love. If you don’t have love, you are far away from home.
Again, you don’t reside in home. Home resides in you.
And what makes you home is love.
HOME IS WHERE YOU BELONG
True belonging ignites love and brings comfort. We all experience being loved especially by our family and friends. We experience home because we belong.
We all want to belong. We all need people in our lives. Belonging is not about wanting people to be like us. It is about giving each other a space of learning and loving each other with the similarities and differences we have.
You’ll only know where you belong if you know who you are. A fish belongs to its school and swims with them together under the water. A bird belongs to its nest with its fellow birds and flies with them together in the sky. A person belongs with whom she can be himself with, if, he really knows his identity. It means, if you belong, you are comfortable. You need not to wear mask. You need not to cover up. You can be who you are.
Sometimes, we say we are “out of place.” The reason is simply because we are not home. We are not with the right people. Yes, with the wrong ones. Because, in home there is understanding, there is acceptance, there is family. And the bottom line of it is still, love.
THIS IS HOME
Right now, maybe you think you are happy. There’s nothing more in life that you wish for. But at the end of the day, are you really happy? Are you really contented? Are you really in the joy that home brings?
Home is not just about you loving and being loved; it’s not just about you who belong. It’s also about how home can change you. You cannot say that you are home if you are living a life of mess and at the same time, happy. You cannot say you are home being with the people who support you and influence you doing things that are not helpful to you, and at the same time, happy. Don’t sugarcoat things that you know deep inside of you, are wrong.
Being home gives you the power to dream, to do good and beautiful things, to love and give more, to serve, to build and make your life better and better every day.
Home is a place where lives get changed. It is changing you inside and out.
Now, what is your home? Who is your home? Only you can answer that. Does it give you the power to dream great things? Does it help you do good and beautiful things that are helpful to everyone? Do you love more and give more? Does it teach you to serve? Does it make you a better person every day? If not, maybe there is a missing piece inside of you which leads you far away from home.
You know what? The One who created you knows it. In fact, He is the only One who can make you home. He is your identity because He created you. That’s who you are. You can only have love if you know and experience His great love for you. Just accept and receive Him in your life. Go back to this real home, because you are missing a lot in your life. Just give it a try.
Where there is love, that great and true love, there is home. Now, can you say, “I am home.”?
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