Today I return home to my boyhood home for the first book signings of my new novel, Ginger Snaps. Unlike the novel’s main character, Jack Patterson, my travel anxiety is not about returning home, its about the travel itself. I haven’t driven this far in a long, long time, but I also think it is something different. It is leaving my new home in Charlotte and Suzy. My rock and my foundation, and I think all of us get a little anxious when we stray far away from our foundation.
So to it is in our faith life. When we leave our home, when we leave our foundation, when we stray too far away from God our body, our heart, and our soul all sense anxiety. There is a disturbance in the “Force” one can’t explain, but is only calmed when we return.
We travel away from our homes, our rocks, for many reasons, but it always feel good when we return. When we stray from God there isn’t a good reason, but the return home is even more calming and comfortable.
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