{"id":4033,"date":"2015-06-28T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4033"},"modified":"2015-06-28T00:21:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T04:21:13","slug":"is-where-i-want-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4033","title":{"rendered":"Is where I want to be…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"heidijoanie\"<\/a> \"mary\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"threeted\"<\/a>\"billly\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Home.<\/p>\n

What is it, really?\u00a0 In the red book…. with all the other words in it….\u00a0 a home is purported to be\u2026. “the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household.”<\/p>\n

I think this is partly true.\u00a0 But HOME is so much more, I think.<\/p>\n

Home is not really where we live.\u00a0 It is more\u2026. perhaps\u2026 HOW we live.<\/p>\n

Okay.\u00a0 Say for instance, you live in a little cracker box of a place, with the love of your life, and all your beautiful children, and your dog named Joe.\u00a0 (And even your little cat… who calls itself\u00a0 “Dark Lord of the Universe”).<\/p>\n

Then one day\u2026 someone plucks you out of that tiny-walled-place, and drops you in the middle of a marble mansion in the middle of the Kingdom of Cuz.\u00a0\u00a0 But there is no Life-Partner.\u00a0 No kids.\u00a0 And heck NO\u2026 not even Joe or his fleas.<\/p>\n

You can never see them again, but here is this spectacular mansion.\u00a0 Are you home?\u00a0 I would guess not.<\/p>\n

Home is that warm bowl of oatmeal in the morning, and the flowers growing in the garden.\u00a0 Home is the pictures on the wall, and the apples in the bowl on the dining room table.\u00a0 It is Jessie\u2019s \u201cA\u201d in reading class, and Martha\u2019s big win at the soccer field.\u00a0 Home is the song on the radio, and ceramic jar from last year\u2019s festival.\u00a0 The summer pickles in the fridge.<\/p>\n

Home is what grows in our hearts.\u00a0 Like warm green moss on the side of an Oak Tree in the forest.\u00a0 The two seem completely different, but completely inseparable.<\/p>\n

Today, I went to a reception hosted by the HIT Foundation.\u00a0 Which, by the way, stands for Home Is The Foundation.\u00a0 It was honoring all their volunteers and donors, and participants, in the Senior Home Repair Program.<\/p>\n

Because once you find your home\u2026.. you never want to leave it.\u00a0 Not really.\u00a0 There is no place like it\u2026. in the world.\u00a0 So you always go back home.\u00a0 Or at least… you hope to.<\/p>\n

That continues when we get older.\u00a0 Maybe even more so\u2026.. that need, that longing\u2026. to be home.<\/p>\n

So this program does repairs and such, for Seniors in our community, to assist them in keeping their homes longer.\u00a0 A happy longer.\u00a0 I can only say that the people who donate their time to this cause, are amazing spirits.\u00a0 Some of them give tirelessly.\u00a0 Endlessly.\u00a0 From Construction Companies, to Church Groups.\u00a0 Incredible giving.<\/p>\n

It is an amazing grace, this thing.\u00a0 Just like home is an amazing grace\u2026 in our hearts.\u00a0 And that\u2026\u00a0 is why we call it \u201cHome.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Home is where I want to be… Pick me up and turn me round.”\u00a0 – Talking Heads
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.\u00a0 —\u00a0 Maya Angelou<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.\u00a0 —\u00a0 Sarah Ban Breathnach<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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