Emmanuel Baptist Church

For one woman, Naomi, homecoming wasn’t appealing. She wasn’t walking with her iTunes on repeat singing with Simon and Garfunkel, “Homeward Bound, I wish I was homeward bound.” Though she wasn’t looking forward to it, she knew it was necessary. Because in going back home to Bethlehem, she is on the slow journey back to God. And many times for us, the pain in our lives makes the journey back to God very slow and sometimes uncomfortable. But, in our little vignette today, the Spirit of the Lord Jesus teaches us something about coming back home to the Lord. That in our pain and in our struggles, there are strides that we can make in order to make the journey home a little less rocky.