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THURSDAY MEDITATION
Is There Such a Thing as a Spiritual Home?
What constitutes home for you?
Creator, guide us into understanding and love that we may always feel at home on this Earth.
Some of you can and will make your physical home a place where you dwell and live for many years. In fact, Scott Russell Sanders is one of those people. He is the author of Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World.
But, and this is a BIG but…not everyone has that choice.
So, the question becomes: is there such a thing as a spiritual home that is the same as your physical home? I understand that some will agree and others will not.
I grew up on three different continents outside of the U.S. before coming to the U.S. to live permanently. I didn’t have a choice in that because my father’s job took us around the world. I didn’t mind growing up as a Third Culture Kid (TCK). In fact, I would much prefer to have stayed across the pond.
It is because of this that I have adopted a spiritual home wherever I am. It rests in my heart and soul.
Although Sanders, a resident of Bloomington, IL, has made a home there for 20 years, he seems to recognize the privilege of that in this quote from his book:
