{"id":3957,"date":"2025-05-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=3957"},"modified":"2025-05-20T18:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T18:15:36","slug":"at-home-in-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2025\/05\/21\/at-home-in-christ\/benedictine-spirituality\/3957\/","title":{"rendered":"At home in Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/johannes-plenio-xuibQCRN2WU-unsplash-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/johannes-plenio-xuibQCRN2WU-unsplash-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/johannes-plenio-xuibQCRN2WU-unsplash-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/johannes-plenio-xuibQCRN2WU-unsplash-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/johannes-plenio-xuibQCRN2WU-unsplash-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/johannes-plenio-xuibQCRN2WU-unsplash-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/johannes-plenio-xuibQCRN2WU-unsplash-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/johannes-plenio-xuibQCRN2WU-unsplash-1980x1114.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image by Joe from pixabay.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Each time we revisit today\u2019s gospel I discover something new in it. Sometimes the \u201cnew\u201d message is something that has touch my heart in the past that I need to be reminded of again. Other times I\u2019m struck by something that seems so completely new that it\u2019s as if it\u2019s only just been added to the text as I read it. Today I\u2019m reflecting on these words, which seem completely new to me. Jesus says to his disciples:<br><br><em>\u201cMake your home in me, as I make mine in you.\u201d<br><\/em><br>His words touch a deep yearning within us. We all have an inbuilt yearning for home. We all need a safe place where we can be accepted and nurtured, a place where we feel that we can belong, flourish and grow. That yearning seems especially sharp in times like these when so much that we assumed was solid has turned out to be fragile and uncertain. <br><br>The more aware we are of life\u2019s challenges and fragility the more we recognise our need for a safe place. As the circumstances of the past few years erode our sense of safety and security Jesus\u2019 words become a beacon of light, offering us love and hope. However fragile and uncertain our circumstances we can still find a safe place in him, a place where we can be held nurtured, grow and bear fruit.<br><br>How are you finding your way home to the heart of Christ this Eastertide?<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each time we revisit today\u2019s gospel I discover something new in it. Sometimes the \u201cnew\u201d message is something that has touch my heart in the past that I need to be reminded of again. Other times I\u2019m struck by something that seems so completely new that it\u2019s as if it\u2019s only just been added to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,494,359,239,271,362,246],"tags":[28,18,53,223,253,448,125,6,290,8,33,229,13,29,15,10,379],"class_list":["post-3957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-eastertide","category-gospel","category-lectio-divina","category-resurrection","category-scripture","tag-benedictine","tag-challenge","tag-christ","tag-christlike","tag-desire","tag-discipleship","tag-eastertide","tag-gospel","tag-homecoming","tag-hope","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-love","tag-newlife","tag-trust","tag-yearning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3962,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}