“When Jesus says, “Make your home in me as I make mine in you” (Jn.15) he offers us an intimate place that we can call home. Home is that place or space where we do not have to be afraid but can let go of our defenses and be free, free from worries, free from tensions, free from pressures. Home is where we can laugh and cry, embarce and dance, sleep long and dream quietly, eat, read, play, watch the fire, listen to music, and be with a friend. Home is where we can rest and be healed.. a good place to be, it is the house of love.
“But in this world millions of people are homeless. Some are homeless because of their inner anguish, while others are homeless because they have been driven from their own towns and countries. In prisons, mental hosptials, refugee camps, in hidden-away apartments, in nursing homes and overnight shelters we get a glimpse of homelessness.
“Speaking of himself as the vine and of his disciples as the branches, Jesus says: “Make your home in me.” This is an invitation to intimacy. Then he adds: “Those who remain in me with me in them, bear fruit in plenty.” This is an invitation to fecundity. Finally, when he says, “I have told you this so that your joy may be full,” he promises ecstasy.”
Henri Nouwen, Lifesigns
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