Every day starts a new snippet of life.
Getting up, moving, being, another trip around the sun.
Finally! Arriving home! Most commonly in the dark.
But this is the place I love. Lights. Bright. Home.
Every day ends with this night – always home.
Safe. Lights? Burning Bright. Family is here.
Not all have this end-of-trip comfort.
A kitchen chair, easy chair, settling in quietly.
This comfortable place of safety, safely home.
Known and loved, I’m here. I belong.
Give me a few minutes to recover from the day.
Ah, yes. This is my home. What a comforting place.
I am blessed every day, every year,
There’s never a moment of doubt.
This time and space, this revolving place,
Home lights, I see, burning brightly for me.
The final end one day will come.
Leaving this earthly place, we know as home.
I’ll enter something new yet unknown.
A new home that’s made just for me.
Lights are burning brightly. Look! There.
My new home, I can see. Beauty? Uncompared.
Comfortable? By any stretch of my mind, that’s a yes!
Oh, but the One I see is the One who paved my path.
He showed me how to get from here and now,
To that new home. Lit brightly. Made for me.
Easy? No. This old road has been tough.
Worth it? Just wait. Someday you will see.
~Michael Gurley, January 19, 2023