You Are My Home

I guess some days bring you down low, and others you feel decent, others you feel sub-par, and some days you feel on top of the world. Sometimes I've wondered why Jesus won't just return again right now and spare us from the broken patterns of our own sin and the fleeting feelings we go through every day.

I've listened to this one song on repeat for a couple days now, and you know when you can listen to one song forever and never get tired of it? It's one of those songs.

This song has reminded me that this earth is only a temporary home.
Our home resides within God Himself.

Just like the homes we live in now where we can be ourselves and find warmth in our beds, or we can cook food knowing where all the pots and pans are located. Homes where we can sit down at a long table for family dinner gatherings or curl up on the sofa to watch a movie. Homes that smell like family, or comfort foods or minty toothpaste or pumpkin spice candles. Our own bedrooms are where we feel safe and secure, and they are personalized to who we are and what we feel. They're a sanction to run to and find rest.

Now only if we could find that same rest and comfort and security and satisfaction in the Lord. Here on earth, I think that that is hard to find. It just is. But it's comforting to know that God promises to be our Home that we can always come back to to dwell in, even though we may run away in doubt that His walls will crumble.

His walls won't crumble though, I keep reminding myself. There is immense joy in knowing that despite all the changes, God is the same, and continues to pursue us with His love and grace even though we constantly fear or reject His abundant House!

I think ultimately we were made for Heaven. Though there is the Holy Spirit within us, and God revealing Himself to us, and Jesus having risen for us, we were made to be with our Father in Heaven.

Until heaven, just rejoicing on earth here and now that God is still with us every hour, minute, and second of every single day is a simple blessing to praise Him for.


“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

― C.S. Lewis


here's to a new week,
love, caitlyn