Where is home? Home is where the heart
can laugh without shyness. Home is where
the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.
~Vernon Baker
can laugh without shyness. Home is where
the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.
~Vernon Baker
“I’ve loved you the way my Father has loved me. Make yourselves at home in my love. If you keep my commands, you’ll remain intimately at home in my love. That’s what I’ve done—kept my Father’s commands and made myself at home in his love."
I have loved you just as my Father has loved you. So let me love you always.
I have loved you just as the Father has loved Me; remain in My love[and do not doubt My love for you].
I have loved you, just as my Father has loved me. So remain faithful to my love for you.
As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.
When pain comes, home offers healing.
When fear overtakes, home is the safe place.
When despair consumes, home brings hope.
When life overwhelms, home is peace.
Home is not..
between walls
at an address
or a temporary shelter.
Home is..
where your heart is held
by the One who is love in the flesh -
who welcomes all with arms stretched wide -
mercy saturated and grace multiplied
The door is ALWAYS open
Make your self at home
in Jesus'
LOVE
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I love to write about Home and you have captured the true essence of home. I loved this line especially: "the One who is love in the flesh - who welcomes all with arms stretched wide - mercy saturated and grace multiplied.
Mercy saturated and grace multiplied - how I need it!
So beautiful, these different versions of that passage you quoted. I have just recently returned from an overseas trip... and it really is good to be reading your posts again. Be blessed today, dear friend. Love, Lidia
These are great ways to describe home....and the love of Jesus. No place like home, literally
Love it.
Dad
Oh Karen ... thank you. I so needed to make myself at "home" in Jesus and His Love because as you know my home is not at all like any of the beautiful descriptions and I long for our eternal home. You'd think after returning, I'd find it as different as I'd hoped but though new it's not home nor how I'd hope so I cling to the words you've shared so well and change my perspective to this with a new hope for what lies ahead. Although my walled "home" is not at all like this home... because it does not offer healing, hope, peace or any sense of a safe place as thankfully I find in our Father's home. I have never felt so sad or insecure, yet at the same time, know what you wrote to be true and long for this more and more. I pray it won't be long. Meanwhile, I seek refuge in His Home of Love for me and these words to soothe my disillusion and even that for my dear Tracy... words of life! Like your dear dad ... Love it! What an encouraging blessing from your earthly dad of your heavenly One! I'm so glad that you have him {seeing his words blessed me also} ... Praying that this earthly home begins to change rather than be the enemy's territory for so much discord and heartache. Filled with gratitude that I can escape in your words and books (some music and videos) and God's Word!
and this one... somehow I missed this post as well. It must have been published at a time I wasn't very much in the blog neighborhood... and so I didn't get to read it at once. But lately, one of my posts has been on the words of Jesus in the John 15 discourse, where Jesus says "Remain in My love." And our Bible teacher said that it literally means, "to continue to be in the position of being delighted in His love." Wow, and now I read these words, "Make yourself at home in my love." So timely indeed. Am always so glad to be connected to you through your blog. Makes me feel so happy getting to know you a bit more.
So here I am again today on Nov.14, 2025, making myself at "HOME" at your old blog home, where we first met & treasuring reading God's Word & your unique gift of weaving all this TOGETHER so beautifully! Now that my earthly 7 acre home is starting to come together as being my home, I enjoy finding myself at home & love exploring outside the beauty God created here & giving thanks as I see His hand at work each day. And this touching writing by you back in November of 2016 is the perfect place for God to lead me to ... because your words ring so true & bring such comfort! I am able to make myself at home in Jesus' love and the words you shared before this ending of where or better said by whom my heart is held ... reminds me to focus on this. I'm so moved by seeing the difference it makes in my situation from my last comment to this one (and at the time you wrote this, I had just been back home from Mexico a short time after 20 years back & forth) but coming to your Hallelujah Anyhow on this day makes me remember how I delighted in your precious gift of expressing so much & so beautifully here in this place & such a God-incidence that I would only briefly scroll & land by choice on this one to realize what you profoundly wrote/write that "Home is not between walls at an address ...". Today, I thank you for these words in this blog post & that wherever I read your words & God's love transcribed in His Word, I find myself wrapped up in so much love, comfort, peace (etc) because of the genuine warmth you convey & bring; assures me that I'm at "home" and I can't wait until I meet you when we're finally HOME. Many blessings dear Karen & keeping you all in my prayers (as you shared here "When pain comes, home offers healing ..." and all that follows in your words but today I add - when sorrow, or grief fills our hearts, our Comforter makes Himself at Home in us & stays there every moment to fill whatever the need & strengthens our hearts with Jesus' & His love abiding at HOME with me (or thee) so I send this to your home & your family as you find His peace, comfort & strength this day as you lean on each other with love & His aMazing Grace! Thank you always for being who you are ... love, Peggy
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