Food for Thought~daily Meditation 06-18

[Pony]

Homesickness


There are certain foods which we will always associate with home and which makes us nstalgic to recapture the past. No matter how much we eat, we cannot go back home and again be the babies and little children we were. No food will satisfy our longing for the love, care, and safety most of us associate with home. Even (and especially) if our dependency needs were not met when were young, eating unnecessary food now will not help.

As we grow in relationship with our Higher Power, we begin to believe that home lies ahead, rather than behind us. We begin to see that our homesickness is for a spiritual state instead of physical place. Wherever we are, we are pilgrams and travelers, not sure of our final destination but drawn toward something more than what we know in the world. We sense that though we are in the world, we are not of it, that we are homesick for a spiritual fulfillment.

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May our homesickness bring us closer to You.