There is in each of us a longing for a place we’ve never been, a home we haven’t known, a holy sorrow at not being somewhere we can’t describe. In short, we are all homesick for heaven. In today’s episode we discuss how that ache becomes more acute as we grow older and less committed to the promises of this world and how heaven is the only experience we will ever have that cannot be exaggerated. Our Scripture reading today is taken from Revelation 21, our liturgy for “Inconsolable Homesickness” is from Every Moment Holy, our literary excerpt is a short story by Charles Dickens, we are continuing in Tortured for Christ, and finishing with the hymn “I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light”. May some line from today’s readings lodge in your heart and comfort, encourage, and sustain you.
