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NONA E. KING

There have been many who have longed for home and love, but who were so lost in the mazes of false belief that they knew not how to satisfy the longing. Every human heart is hungry for love. There is always the desire to be cherished, protected, and understood, to love and be loved, to have in human experience a home wherein there is peace and harmony.

How often we fail to experience even what the world calls the sweetest sense of home because we are looking for it in matter, whereas the qualities which constitute home are spiritual! If, in our search for it, we turn away from God, the source of all true being, and rely upon human personalities, wealth, or place to bring us peace and joy, we must not be surprised to find that the beliefs of matter do not satisfy. Like the prodigal son we have wandered from the home of our Father; and we must arise from the false sense of a material home and return to our Father's house.

As our whole thought seeks the Father in humility and love, we shall see that while we seemed to long for a human sense of home and companionship, in reality we were hungering and thirsting to know God, to be conscious that we are cherished and watched over by the dear Father-Mother, Love, tenderly supplying every need; to feel the protection and to rely upon the infinite strength and wisdom of divine Love. As we realize that we, as God's children, all dwell under the loving care of our Father-Mother God, and that we are never for a single instant separated from all-inclusive Love, we become more conscious each day that we are never alone, never homeless or forsaken. All the beliefs of fear, doubt, and discouragement are but the subtle arguments of so-called mortal mind, and have no foundation whatever, because they are not of God. They do not belong to man, and cannot enter into his home or consciousness. Man lives, moves, and has his being in God. Man is forever at home in the Father's house. The unfoldment of the spiritual idea makes clear to us the meaning of our Leader's words (Poems, p. 4):—

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