Home is Where the Lord Is

In In the House of the Lord, Henri Nouwen writes, “Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.” The more we practice the discipline of prayer, the more we experience our home as being in God and with God. If we pray regularly and deeply we will never really be homeless, and we will always be at home wherever we are. This ubiquity of our divine home is due, not only to God’s omnipresence, but also to God’s Son, Immanuel, having pitched his tent with us and having prepared an eternal place for us with God.