154: Home is Right Where You Are (with Ruth Chou Simons)

We are back for season 5! Author and artist Ruth Chou Simons joins Heather and Keane for this first episode of the season focused on finding our home in Christ, wherever He leads us.

• “I care about words as art.”
• “‘The heaven declare the glory of the Lord,’ the Bible says. Ultimately, we are not just believing that God is on high and He is sovereign and He’s the ruler of all and Creator God; we don’t just think that and believe it, we experience it when we see the sunrise and the sunset.”
• “The more we know that God is God and we are not, the more we start really being able to worship Him for who He is.”
• “When you make your home with God, you’ll never be far from home.”
• “Sometimes we associate home with location or environment or kind of furniture or the smells… Nothing can truly satisfy the way my relationship with Jesus can.”
• “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.” C.S. Lewis
• “God offers to all of us a sense of belonging, home, and absolute security, regardless of where you live… It doesn’t matter where God takes you, if He’s the one that you’re walking with, you actually have access to your true home.”
• “The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.” George Mueller
• “Everything that is scary out there, I’m sheltered from ultimately by the blood of Christ, but also I have safety and comfort under the shelter of God’s wing. And that shelter is true home.”
• “Throughout Scripture, when we see God pursuing His people, when we’re being offered a relationship with Jesus, it’s always through presence.”
• “He is our shepherd as in He is caring for us, He holds us, we are close to Him.”
• Hebrews 11:16

Learn more about Ruth Chou Simons here and find her new book here!

What’s changing our lives:

• Keane: Community photography class
• Heather: Changes to her church small group
• Ruth: FaceTiming her sons in other states and ginger turmeric shots

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