… This is crucial for the times we are living through. For we are a homeless people grasping for our identity in things which may harm and embitter us, which may divide and alienate us from each other. If we can grasp that in God comes our sense of self-worth, that in Godcomes our safety and security, that in God comes our well-being – then we have truly come home.
The Kingdom of God is like a homecoming. It is living day to day in the knowledge of the presence of God in our lives and in the everyday world. It is being able to look forward in hope because we understand that heaven is ahead of us and around us.
How much our prodigal society needs to come home.
How much our homeless society needs to know that our Father God is waiting in longing to welcome us home.
This is the great secret grounded in our faith; Jesus sowed the tiny seeds in his teaching about the Kingdom of God. He trusts you and me to water and nurture the growth of that Kingdom as we embrace God’s presence in our own everyday lives, as we look out for what God is doing in the world around us, and as we help others to find their home in him.
– from today's talk, The Kingdom of God is like a Homecoming.
