Home 27 April 2018

“There’s a fire softly burning, suppers on the stove…” John Denver’s words in “Back Home Again” are a comfort. The images in the lyrics are all things that represent home. I’ve always known that home is more than a structure because I’ve felt at home in a tent, at a camp, on a road trip, on a trail, with my horse, in a house, and in many more places. What does home mean to you?

For me, home is where I’m safe. I’m loved. I’m accepted. I’m challenged. I’m blessed. I’m held accountable. I count.

I share many of the images of home in John Denver’s song, but I do have others as well:

Hot chocolate smothered in marshmallows, and even sometimes the blue and white Frozenones, and this on a cold and snowy late afternoon around dusk in the winter, or around a camp stove high up in…