Article August 21, 2000 Issue

Home yet?

Make yourself at home!

By Shirley J. Clark Jones

As I was leaving the city, I saw this sign advertising a condominium development: "If you lived here, you'd be home now."

Well, I didn't. But the sign got me thinking about what home meant to me. Homes vary in both style and location. There are apartments, bungalows, mansions, cabins, huts; homes in the desert, on the mountaintop, by the sea, in the forest. So are the four walls we call home, really home?

I'm a regular reader of the Bible, and have learned a lot about home from that book. For example:

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