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Where is your home?

Where is your home?

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Jeremiah 29 5 Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 6 Marry and have sons and daughters; . . . Increase in number there; do not decrease. 7 Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper. ’ . . . 11 For I know the plans I have for you, ’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Put down roots! “To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. ” Simone Weil

Wendell Berry: “Most people now are looking for a ‘better place’, which means that a lot of them will end up in a worse one. . . There is no ‘better place’ than this, not in this world. And it is by the place we've got, and our love for it and our keeping of it, that this world is joined to Heaven. ” “Love in this world doesn't come out of thin air. It is not something thought up. Like ourselves, it grows out of the ground. It has a body and a place. ”

Jeremiah 29 5 Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 6 Marry and have sons and daughters; . . . Increase in number there; do not decrease. 7 Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper. ’ . . . 11 For I know the plans I have for you, ’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. • ecological • social • economic & political • spiritual

“God’s home is now among his people” Revelation 21: 3