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Thomas Wolfe wrote You Can’t Go Home Again because of his own difficulties of returning
to his hometown of Asheville, NC after having written Look Homeward Angel. In that book, Wolfe
based many of his characters on people that he knew, and these folks recognized themselves in his
work. Wolfe found that because of the way things had changed while he was gone, as well as the
ways that he had changed, though he could physically return to the place that he’d thought of as
home, it didn’t really feel like home. And so he penned this now famous line: You can’t go home
again.

But there are times when that’s not entirely true. While things may never be the same as
when you first left a place, if you’ve created a home, a family among a group of people, and that love
is still there, then there is indeed a home that you can return to.

As Christians we are a people who are always separated from our true home until the day
when we meet our maker. Then, we will know home in a new way – and the word home will take on
a meaning unlike anything we can currently conceive of. But in the mean time, the truest home we
can know is the love we share and the fellowship we create with our Christian brothers and sisters, as
we sit at the table together and share our lives in community with one another.

Today we are welcoming Feild and Jenny Russell back home to MUPC. They began their
career in ministry with our church family, and though the years have passed by, we all know that they
are still very much loved and oft thought of. They have gone to other churches, made their home
among other people, but as they return to us today, let us remind them that when they are among us,
they are not merely among friends – they are among family, and when you’re with family, you’re
home.

Welcome home Feild and Jenny. You will always have a place at the table.

Pastor Evan

 


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