Home Part 6
June 7, 2026
Home Part 6
Sometimes, when someone dies, we say, “They’ve gone home to be with Jesus.” It’s a gentle phrase, softer than the blunt finality of “they’re gone,” and far more alive than “rest in peace,” which can feel like an endless, dormancy. “Going home” carries something better. It suggests movement, belonging, and a return, not an ending.
Because home, at its best, is never dull. It is not a puffy cloud or an eternal nap. Home is warmth and recognition. It is laughter that needs no explanation, love that does not have to be earned, and a sense of being fully known without fear. It is alive with meaning, rich with everything that stirs our curiosity, our joy, and our sense of wonder. To call death a “homecoming” is to say that what lies ahead is a return to our origin— to where our soul was created.
And there is something deeper still in that idea. To go home is to return to where we began. Long before we had names, histories, or even bodies, there was a Divine imagining that formed our essence, unique and unrepeatable. The poet Rumi put it this way… “What did your face look like before your parents were born?” We did not come from nowhere; we came from something whole, something intentional. Our lives, then, are not random wanderings, but direct expressions of our Source.
We spend time tracing our earthly roots… family trees, histories, the stories that locate us in time. And there is meaning in that. But no record, no ancestry report, can trace the deeper origin of who we are. That is our spiritual ancestry and knowing that does not come from documents; it comes from a kind of inner remembering… a self-remembering. It is less like research and more like a quiet walk that gradually leads us back to the place we have always belonged.
In that sense, “going home” is not reserved for the moment of death. It is something we can begin now.
Each time we choose presence over distraction, kindness over indifference, or understanding over judgment, we take a step toward home. Each time we see another person not as an obstacle or an enemy, but as a fellow bearer of that same Divine essence, we draw closer to it ourselves. And sometimes when we are within that state of consciousness, we are in a home that Jesus called the kingdom of heaven. But as we know, getting there is not easy. Our egos, if unchecked, resist it. They divide the world into “for me” and “against me,” keeping score, holding grievances, protecting their ground.
But the ego, cannot lead us home. It is built for survival, not for reunion. And yet, we are more than our ego. Beneath it, within it, is something more real than anything else about us. It is our essence. That part of us is already aligned with the Divine, already tethered to our Source. It does not argue or defend; it doesn't have to judge, it simply knows and loves. And if we let it, it will guide us gently but persistently back toward that place of belonging, to our Holy Origin. It says, “Follow me, I’ll get you there.”
Our real home, then, is what we are returning to. And perhaps the most hopeful truth is this: we do not have to wait to arrive.
Spiritual practice: What was Jesus referring to when he said, “the kingdom of heaven?” What does the Kingdom of Heaven have to do with our Divine Origin?
Prayer:
Dear God, Grant that I may already be well on my way before I get there. Amen
