Returning Home

There is a deep longing in every human heart to return to our ancestral home. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young sing about this in their song “Woodstock”: “We got to get ourselves back to the garden.” This is part of God’s purpose for his people: a return to the place where we began. It is a place of relationship between man and woman and fellowship with God—​​​a place of light and life, of trees and water.

This is the home where we have always belonged, and always will. In the words of Chad Walsh, a literary critic who came to faith in Christ through the witness of C. S. Lewis, “I…