Article February 25, 1950 Issue

OUR REAL HOME

EVA RUBERT

Everyone desires a happy, harmonious home. But many of us have a material concept of it and place too much emphasis on beautiful architecture, lovely furnishings, and spacious grounds. These are all very fine, but should never be our goal. Home is, in reality, a spiritual idea, through which the harmony of Mind is expressed; it is not a material habitation. We should constantly know that nothing can enter our home, or consciousness of harmony, that defileth or maketh a lie. No error can ever enter the home where Love, divine Mind, is supreme. Boundless joy, freedom, peace, activity, supply, and love are expressed in this home.

In looking up the definition of home we find that it means not only a house in which to live, but a place of security and refuge, an abiding place for the affections. The world is made up of millions of homes, and the harmony and love we wish to see expressed universally must first be expressed individually. Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, makes home synonymous with heaven, and on page 587 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she gives this definition of heaven: "Harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere of Soul." This shows that home is not material; it is not dependant on place or person, for it is a divine state of consciousness, present wherever we are, and as God's reflection we express all the qualities of home.

"Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections" (ibid., p. 58). It is true that we must first express and see expressed all the qualities of God in our homes, but we must never confine them there. We need to express the same qualities of tenderness and understanding to all. When we realize that man's true home is in God, we see that all His ideas live in peace together. No sense of strife, misunderstanding, envy, hatred, or war can find lodgment in the divine consciousness, for God can be conscious only of good; therefore man can never conscious of anything unlike good. As we lift our thought of home from a material basis to the true spiritual idea of home, we shall be making it easier for the thousands of so-called homeless people to find their real home in God.

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