Don't Mistake This for Home

I suppose I cannot quite get away from the theme of pain and suffering. This last ten months may not be the worst history has ever had, in fact, it isn't, but it is arguably a different kind of tumultuous from that to which we in the United States are used. Not since the Civil War have we been touched with such crises and discord. The world and national events are in such a coalescence as to create a sense of immediate danger of eradicating our material and psychological well being. And then a tweet from a rare professing Christian in Hollywood, Patricia Heaton, reminds me that not only do we feel like we are not home in this world, we weren't meant to feel that way. Why? Because it is not home. The transformed pain and suffering, transformed in meaning, not in experience, is what we must endure to get to our true home.