Is your home a place? Some may answer: "Yes, it is. Not only I but my family have lived in the same place for generations." But for many, home is an ever-changing place.
When in Asia Minor, one often sees the pastoral tribes carrying their homes on their camels' backs—black goats' wool tents such as may once have been woven by Paul of Tarsus. They search unceasingly for the best pasture for their droves of goats and sheep. So today, many of us find our home where our work or profession takes us. For the soldier, it may be a muddy foxhole, a steaming or drafty tent, a barren barracks. For some it may be a tenement or a penthouse, a cave or a castle, or something in between. Yet for almost all of us, a desire for a more satisfying sense of home is a yearning urgency, a basic need. The concept of home is one that unfolds and keeps on unfolding along with one's striving and experience.
The Christian Scientist gains an impetus and inspiration for this striving by making a careful study of the authorized biographies of Mrs. Eddy. One of the first of these books is The Life of Mary Baker Eddy by Sibyl Wilbur, who had the privilege of having personal interviews with Mrs. Eddy. One learns from this book that her early life was centered about a God-oriented home. Each evening the whole family gathered to hear her father read from the Bible. Her mother encouraged her to think of God as ever-present good.
