Your True Home

There is only one week until Christmas and it is no wonder that tonight's post is inspired by a Christmas song. Almost every time I have turned on the radio in the past month I have heard the song "(There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays" by Perry Como. This song brings out a lot of emotions for me.

Christmas has always been a time that I associated with being home and visiting family that I might not have seen in several months, or even possibly since the previous Christmas. My parents have been divorced and both have remarried since I was 5. This equals a lot of family to visit on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. My sister and I have developed a routine of sorts for our Christmas celebrations, traveling from house to house for different meals in order to visit with every one. This year, however, everything is changing. Traditional dinners have been moved to a different date and we are traveling out of state to visit with family that we haven't seen in years in a town that my sister and I have never been to. On top of all that, my sister and I moved out of my mother's house over the summer and aren't exactly on speaking terms with her. So where does that leave us on the whole "there's no place like home for the holidays" thing? Are we the exception? And where do we call home when our hearts are searching for just that? When searching for scripture to ease my mind, I came across Psalm 91. Though I had heard the first part of the psalm before I don't remember ever reading the end of the psalm. This is the part that really stuck me. I'm included it below in hopes that you will find reassurance in it like I did. When the world around us only holds questions, God holds answers. He is the only home we need, whether we are searching for somewhere to call our home or if we have the "perfect" early home. Remember that and you will always find refuge in the Lord.

Your Fellow Water Walker,
-Ashlee

Psalm 91:9-16
 ⁹ If you say, “The LORD is my refuge,”
   and you make the Most High your dwelling,
¹⁰ no harm will overtake you,
   no disaster will come near your tent.
¹¹ For he will command his angels concerning you
   to guard you in all your ways;
¹² they will lift you up in their hands,
   so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
¹³ You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
   you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
 ¹⁴ “Because he^[b] loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him;
   I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him;
   I will be with him in trouble,
   I will deliver him and honor him.
¹⁶ With long life I will satisfy him
   and show him my salvation.”