Well, welcome to another edition of our weekday podcast, Things Unseen, where this week

week we've been reflecting on special places, or more accurately, I've been talking about some

of the places and moments and people that have proven to be special in my own life,

in the hope that it will encourage us all to reflect on exactly the same thing, people and places

and moments when the Lord has met with us that we should never forget.

And actually it's something our spiritual forefathers thought was important

for our spiritual well-being, that we remember the ways in which God has met with us. And

we all have different places, different events that have been spiritually significant in our

lives. There's one place, however, I hope you can put on your list. Home. Some of us may have

moved so often that we find it difficult to answer the question. Where do you call home? I think over

the years we've lived in about a dozen different houses that you could have called home, at least in the

sense they've been the place where we've returned at the end of the day. But they haven't all felt

in the same way. This is our home. There's a difference between a house being where you return

at the end of the day and where you feel is really home.

That's where you sense that you belong, where your roots are, where the people you feel you belong to live.

In many ways the old adage is true, isn't it? Home is where the heart is, where you have a sense of ease and comfort, not just physical comfort with familiar things, but comfort with people, your home. But what makes a house a home? Well, I've really already answered that question, haven't I?

It's the people, not the things in it, but the people who share it. In that sense, I've had two homes.

I was brought up in a small family, an older brother by about three years,

and our dad and mum.

I can't really put into words my parents' commitment to their two sons.

Plus, they were amazingly patient with the younger son.

That was me. I don't think either of my parents had any schooling

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