We learn in Christian Science that our real home is spiritual, not material. Paul said, "Ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God." Our spiritual home is heaven, the kingdom of God. It is not a place afar off, to be attained at some future date, but we may now, today, enter into the Father's house of "many mansions," spoken of by Jesus. How may we claim our birthright? Through understanding that we are the sons of God, and as such are spiritual.
In our human experience, home seems to be dependent upon persons and things, but as our thinking becomes spiritualized we learn to exchange things for thoughts. Then our human experience becomes more harmonious as we bring out a higher concept of home. Sometimes our outward home consists of one room, sometimes of many more, but in either case it is the pivot around which circle our human activities; hence it is of vital importance that our thinking about it be peaceful, orderly, harmonious.
Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 58), "Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections;" and above this, in the same paragraph, she says, "With additional joys, benevolence should grow more diffusive." The emphasis here is on the true qualities which should be manifested in the home.
