Home is full of safety and raw, genuine existing; a place where breathing is easy and fear is unthinkable, for it does not exist.
"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned." -Maya Angelou
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Over the course of my life I have lived in many different houses and two different states. I have done quite a bit of traveling, and consequently saw some beautiful places. Even still, "home" has nothing to do with a building or geographical location in my life. "Home," to me, is the place where I am most myself. When I am at "home" I feel safe, raw, vulnerable and transparent in the healthiest of ways. "Home" helps me process, regroup my perspective and priorities, and most often inspires me. Sometimes, a location feels like "home," but mostly actions, settings, or even people feel like "home." In my life, where I meet God is always "home," for God defines who I am.
The following are circumstances of "home" to me so far:
- Family.
- When I am dancing. On stage or in the studio with the lights off.
- Writing, piano.
- In community. People.
- When I am a part of something larger than myself.
- Adventures. Cities. Out of the ordinary. Travel.
- In the midst of outdoor beauty.
- Reading with coffee. Especially while its raining.
So, today, I encourage you to identify where your "home" is.
“Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind."-Harriet Beecher
Share: what is "home" to you?
