HOME

For some of you, home is where you were born, raised, married, had children, and lived your whole life.  All around you is the familiar: landmarks, roadways, life-long friends.  Memories are attached to the same town and state.  You are aware of the many families that share your area.

Others may have moved away after marriage but remain close enough to easily go back home to see friends and family.  Still others may have moved far away, seldom seeing home again, perhaps returning for holidays and reunions.  Many married couples make new homes and sometimes move many times, and as long as they are together, home is where their heart is.

As times moves on, our spouse may die; our heart is broken; the idea of home almost vanishes.  We may then move to a new place to be close to our adult child or children.  That is their home, not ours.  Trying to make a new home alone is vey difficult, even though our adult children help as much as possible.  The new locale offers many challenges.  Nothing is familiar.  We yearn for home.