Take time to explore your experiences of “coming home”. The home you’ve known may not be a place you wish to return to. But what would it be like to come home to a place where you were known and loved and embraced? Have you ever tasted a moment of homecoming or is such a moment still a dream? Try to recall a time when you “awakened” to a sense of peace and happiness.

Perhaps you were a child and you awoke on Christmas morning full of expectation and desire.
Maybe it was the morning after your wedding day and you awoke to birds singing, sun shining, and you basked in the warmth of your beloved sleeping beside you.
Could it be the time you “woke up” and realized you get paid to do work you enjoy so much you’d do for nothing?
Maybe you can recall a moment when the light of Christ came to you and you awakened to a sense that in that moment you found yourself exquisitely, unexplainably happy.