IT'S WONDERFUL to feel at home wherever you are. But what if you don't feel at ease in some situation? One response is to get out of that situation. It might be time for a change. Yet maybe the deeper need is to gain a new sense — a spiritual sense — of what it is to feel at home.
Many people feel uneasy among strangers or in unfamiliar places, but you can even feel unsettled in your own house if it's being beaten by a storm or if the relationships within it are turbulent. Whether what we are experiencing is pleasing or not at the moment, it's important that we grow out of relying on, even being enslaved by, what the physical senses say about our situation. A material view of life ultimately involves suffering because that view is false. To feel at home in the truest sense is to experience the enduring harmony that comes from God. Life is Spirit, God, entirely good. A deepening spiritual understanding of life and of who we are shows this to us.
As God's child, we're created and governed by Spirit alone. We don't actually live in matter, even though we seem to. We live in God. The Psalmist sang, "Lord, thou hast been our dwellingplace in all generations." Ps. 90:1. In Spirit, in divine Truth and Love, there's no harmful, material element or environment.
