There is no place like home...

As Dorothy said 'There is no place like home'


Whether at home in my rented house in Belfast, with my great housemate or 'down home' with my fabulous parents, home is where I feel safe, secure and most content. The home I want to visit more however this year is my spiritual home, the home where only I possess the key, where only I can gain entry, where I have special privileged access...

In 2009 when I 'visited' this home I was gently guided, gently nudged before I took up the invitation to experience the joy of 'coming' home. At 'home' I experienced love, mercy and understanding regarding EVERY aspect of who I am. I have come to treasure the times we have spent together. He truly does want to commune with us. And something beautiful happens when we are together. I am doing the very thing the Prince of Peace reconciled me for...talking to the Father, having a relationship with Father

He has never changed. He is still the same. He invites us to feast with Him. The invitation to the banquet is not just to experience blessing and abundance, it is to experience Him, we meet Him...the very reason He fashioned me, the very reason He took such effort over me, was to meet Him.


My 2010 isn't going to be filled with 'quiet time' or disciplined daily reading...it is going to filled with intimacy between me and my Creator. We will remember the times we have had, we will reminisce and talk about the desires we both had and whose came to pass. I will draw from a Man who loves to hear from me, who loves to know my desires and loves to see His will played out in them. I will experience a year of absorption-a year were I rejoice in the Presence, a year were I become obsessed with talking to Him and listening to Him. A year were my thoughts are overcome with thoughts of Him...

I can hear the deep call of Jesus calling out my name, inviting me to the banquet table. (Psalm 23:5) It is here I will find the victory over my enemies, they will be starved out as begin to meet Him and feed on the Living Bread. It is not a banquet as we know it...it is a banquet prepared for us by a friend. (John 15:15)

I hope that this year brings obsession in seeking Him and obsession to keep on seeking even when we inevitably find Him...

I hope this year sees a growth in running to that secret place, back to 'home', back to the place where only we can enter, back to that place where there is wholeness, back to that familiar place that holds good memories...in going 'back home' we will meet Him and my hope is I will be overcome by Him.