Heading home

Apart from our GPS devices, can we find our way Home?

The Manx Shearwater, hailing from the coast of Wales, best illustrates the homing instinct in birds. "Scientists took a number of them, tagged and released them at different points around the globe to see whether they could find their way back to the coast of Wales. One bird was released in Boston, some 3,200 miles from home. In just over 12 days, that bird returned to his nest having traveled 250 miles per day from a place it had never been before to reach home again." (*Greg Laurie)

Wise King Solomon knew that within every person there was a longing for North: "God has set eternity in our hearts."

And C. S. Lewis summed it up well: "All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it."

Hints of Home: Translucent brushstrokes of wind from another Country? Do we know intrinsically that this can't be all there is? So is it a place we want or a Person? In the case of the Manx, it's a place. Humankind find rest in a place as well ~ the arms of their Father.

*Laurie's article: worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98266