This is Home

Having headed home for the first time since arriving at college, I'm struck with a strange question: Where is home now? I was driving for 2 hours, listening to some great Christian music, just wondering where I was going and where I was leaving. Which one is home?

Is home where my dormroom and roommate and suitemates and new friends are? Or is home the town my mom, brother, and I moved to when my mom got married, and the house my mom and stepdad live in now? Or maybe home is the town where I lived for almost 10 years, where I learned how to drive and graduated high school. Or it could be the city I was born, or the state where I spent my childhood, or... Where is home? That's my question.

Switchfoot sings a beautiful song that they originally wrote for the soundtrack of the second "Chronicles of Narnia" movie. In the movie, the song refers to Edmund, Peter, Susan, and Lucy having arrived again in Narnia and feeling at home. But the song also relates to our lives today, experiencing the feeling of missing the place where we belong. And where do we belong? Heaven. In God's arms. We are but sojourners in this life. 1 Peter 2:11 says that we are foreigners and aliens in this world. We don't belong here.

One reason we don't feel like we fit in sometimes is because we don't. We are strangers here. We belong with God. And we are here for this time to accomplish a purpose for God's glory.

Let these lyrics resonate with you, especially if you feel lost or alone in this world.

I've got my memories
They're always inside of me
But I can't go back
Back to how it was

I believe you now
I've come too far
No, I can't go back
Back to how it was

Created for a place
I've never known

This is home
Now I'm finally where I belong, where I belong
Yeah, this is home
I've been searching for a place of my own
Now I've found it, maybe, this is home
Yeah, this is home

Belief over misery
I've seen the enemy
And I won't go back
Back to how it was

And I got my heart set on what happens next
I've got my eyes wide, it's not over yet
We are miracles
And we're not alone

Yeah, this is home
Now I'm finally where I belong, where I belong
Yeah, this is home
I've been searching for a place of my own
Now I've found it, maybe, this is home
Yeah, this is home

And now after all my searching
After all my questions
I'm gonna call it home

I got a brand new mindset
I can finally see the sunset
I'm gonna call it home

This is home
Now I'm finally where I belong, where I belong
Yeah, this is home
I've been searching for a place of my own
Now I've found it, maybe, this is home

This is home
This is home
Now I know
Yeah, this is home

I've come too far
And I won't go back
Yeah, this is home