In 2014, a group of artists and musicians in the United Kingdom asked thousands of people one question, and based a live show on the answers.

The question was, what is your happiest memory?

Well, as you might imagine, there were lots of first dates, first dances, first loves, first houses, memories of weddings, memories of births,

lots of births apparently. And then there were memories of glorious holidays and memories of precious faces, the faces of loved ones now lost.

And as they collected these memories of happiness, the creators of the show noticed three things.

The first was that less than 1% of these happy memories had anything to do with

material things. Secondly, the memories were nearly

always about relationships of one kind or another, family or friends or lovers. They discovered the third thing when they fed all the happy memories

into a database and looked for recurring words and phrases. The word that came up most often was the word home. So anyway they put the show on

they taught it all around the UK and when the director was interviewed afterwards he said that the

performances were extraordinary like a cross between a wedding and a wake. It was a celebration but it was mixed with sadness. Sadness because

of course these were memories of happiness. The happiness had gone. It had faded into nostalgia.

What was left was a longing for relationship and a longing for home. Why do we have these desires? Could it be that we were

made for another world, one in which these longings for relationship and home are fully and

finally satisfied. We were. Open up Revelation chapters Chapter's 21 and 22 and you'll catch a stunning glimpse of the world you were

made for. It's the reason why our earthly homes and our earthly relationships, even the very best ones, can never

fully satisfy.

The Bible calls it a new heaven and a new earth the kingdom of heaven or simply heaven a universe of

of perfect joy, happiness, perfect love.

It's a world where we experience both the ultimate home and the ultimate relationship

that deep down we've longed for all our lives. Just think of it. What is it that

makes home so desirable. Is it comfort, acceptance, refreshment, rest, being with

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