People talk about having “a sense of place.” You know how it is, the ties you have to a certain area, whether that’s a specific house or piece of land or part of the country.
Both Jase and Miriam crave that sense of belonging in A Time of Proving. For Miriam, the Massachusetts coastline rings of home to her, but currently that place lies over 1,600 miles to the east. For Jase, he loves the town of Osceola, but struggles to fit in after years of being away.
Having a sense of place has always meant a lot to me. As someone who has only moved once in her life (and then only a few miles down the road), the idea of taking up roots and living somewhere besides the area I call home is almost too hard to consider.
Can the word “home” really be transferred from one spot to another?
I’ve never done that, so I can’t say for sure. But its an idea Miriam has to explore as she considers trading her native Massachusetts’s fishing village for a dusty Nebraska town.
And perhaps with a little looking, home can be found anywhere. With a proper mindset to like the surroundings, even if they are different–and with the right people–home can take on a new topography.
Home is a place. But it’s more than that. Home is the place where family is.
And home can be discovered wherever love flourishes.
To share a quote from one of my childhood favorite books that summarizes the matter well:
“Nothing anywhere could be better than being at home”
Laura Ingalls Wilder, These Happy Golden Years
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