Where is home is a question that has been answered in many ways..”Where the heart is”..”The place that when you go there, they have to take you in.” It is definitely more than a place where you hang your hat. In this day and time when most people move every 2 or 3 years, I am the rare person who has lived in the same little town all my life. “Home encompasses safety, comfort, acceptance but also yearning. When I was a little girl, a great-aunt had a blue house on Main Street.  On the front gate was the name of the house, “My Blue Heaven.” I hope name depicted the life inside the house.

The name Ithaka has come to symbolize in Western culture the yearning for home. The mythic place where all is right with the world. But the longing we feel for home is beyond this time and place. It is a longing for the Paradise of the Garden, the Kingdom of God, for Heaven.

“When we all get to Heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be.”