Homecoming

Yesterday, I asked, “How expansive can a sense of home be?”

I was returning to my town and my house and was on a plane, in fact, when I read an email from Richard Rohr. He talks about these themes too.

He says,

“In the metaphor of life as a journey, I think it’s finally about coming back home to where we started,” and, “I don’t know where that trust comes from or even what home is like, but I know I’m not going to someplace new. I’m going to all the places I’ve known deeply. They’re pointing me to the big deep, the Big Real. I do think homecoming is what it’s all about.”

There is something of an internal homecoming when we internalize all the places and people we’ve known deeply. Perhaps we do also move again or travel from place to place. But some part of homecoming is internal. Good food for thought.

—Renee Roederer