A Place to Call Home

Throughout the years, wise aged couples and old faces graced with wrinkles tell us, "There's no place like home." Along with other young people, I failed to see the extraordinary of place. Home was normal, everyday, common. Home was predictable, monotonous, unvaried.

Now, a year has passed living away from home, in a new place with new friends, new surroundings, new weather, and new landscape. As time has passed, I identify more with the grandmother in the same old farmhouse she's lived in forever. I feel the special gift of home.

Home is steadfast, comfortable, secure. Home is peaceful, unwavering, faithful. Home is a real, physical place. True, it may change with time. Yet home is always anchored in a tangible location. That place is one part of what makes home home.