A Guest Post by Michael Reed. Is home where you are from or the place you own, or something else altogether? In this new take on an old story, the Promised Land is more than a place and maybe more than we expect it to be.
Thank you, Jan and Michael. Jan, I also love the idea that home may be somewhere you have not been yet like a friend is just a stranger you have not yet met. I also love Michael's assertion that home is not necessarily where you're from.
“The Promised Land is a place where the sky is the right color of blue” is my favorite line as well...and conforms to my experience exactly. There is a blue that I can't take my eyes off.
May 16, 2022·edited May 16, 2022Liked by Jan Peppler, PhD
It seems to me that home is the place one's free to exercise their curiosity
{“I was thinking we would just go, and see how far we get,” said Abraham again.
She looked at him then—studied the wrinkles of his skin, his skinny face and deep eye sockets in pools of shadow. An old man with boyish eyes, shining like water at the bottom of a well. She loved him with all her heart.}
Without curiosity nurtured and encouraged at home and within ourselves
We may not learn how to exercise this with our world
I guess Abraham's search began when he asked Why? Or How?
And off he was to an adventure beyond anything he could dream or imagine
Also the Messiah, Abraham's descendant, whose countrymen hoped would make a superior earthly home for them reminded them this:
"Let not people tell you, go there, or here it is! Because The Kingdom of God is within you"
I paraphrase
Loved the story Michael and thank you, Jan for introducing us to Holy Wr*t
Thank you, Jan and Michael. Jan, I also love the idea that home may be somewhere you have not been yet like a friend is just a stranger you have not yet met. I also love Michael's assertion that home is not necessarily where you're from.
“The Promised Land is a place where the sky is the right color of blue” is my favorite line as well...and conforms to my experience exactly. There is a blue that I can't take my eyes off.
It seems to me that home is the place one's free to exercise their curiosity
{“I was thinking we would just go, and see how far we get,” said Abraham again.
She looked at him then—studied the wrinkles of his skin, his skinny face and deep eye sockets in pools of shadow. An old man with boyish eyes, shining like water at the bottom of a well. She loved him with all her heart.}
Without curiosity nurtured and encouraged at home and within ourselves
We may not learn how to exercise this with our world
I guess Abraham's search began when he asked Why? Or How?
And off he was to an adventure beyond anything he could dream or imagine
Also the Messiah, Abraham's descendant, whose countrymen hoped would make a superior earthly home for them reminded them this:
"Let not people tell you, go there, or here it is! Because The Kingdom of God is within you"
I paraphrase
Loved the story Michael and thank you, Jan for introducing us to Holy Wr*t