Article November 11, 2019 Issue

A home we can’t be evicted from

Imaisong Etim

Sometimes our day does not turn out the way we expected it would. Yet even in such cases it is possible to see that God’s abundant care is indeed right at hand.

At one time, my family lived in a rented apartment in a mini-estate made up of tenement flats, in the beautiful bed town of Kuje in Abuja, Nigeria. One day, while still at the office, I received a call from my wife, who said that we had unexpectedly been asked to vacate our home due to a court order that had been served to the estate. The court’s judgment had evidently concluded a few months earlier, but the tenants had not been notified until the eviction day.

I sensed a lot of commotion and fear at the site, but I like the idea in the opening line of this hymn: “Home is the consciousness of good” (Rosemary C. Cobham, alt., Christian Science Hymnal: Hymns 430–603, No. 497). This song awakens me to the unbounded degree of comfort and care from God that we can readily find right where we are, when our consciousness is open to God’s goodness.

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