In an e-mail, I was reminded by the erudite S-I-L that "some people can't go home again". He sent me a little snipet about Thomas Wolfe's book, "You Can't Go Home Again"...which I've never read. In fact, I don't think I've ever read anything by Thomas Wolfe.
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From Christian Ethics Today:
In an article written by Foy Valentine, Valentine writes:
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"In one of the most poignantly insightful titles in American literature, Thomas Wolfe makes the point that you can’t go home again. The point is at once practical and profound, mundane and philosophical, somber and joyous, bitter and sweet, devastating and exhilarating. Most of us have tried it a thousand ways and know with Thomas Wolfe’s George Webber... “that you can’t go home again."
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You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile... back home to lyricism.. .back home to aestheticism, back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time, back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.” [Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1941), p. 706.]"
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Love for home and coming back home is the whole theme of my blog. Being the idealist that I am, I've never thought about NOT being able, not being free, not even wanting to come back home for various and sundry reasons.
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I am aware that you can't come back home in a spiritual sense because this, our earthly home, is only temporary. It is only when we are in the presence of God that we are truly "home". But while we remain on this earth, I believe that the place of your beginning, the place of your childhood, the place of those that watch you grow and mature, is your home.
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Coming home is a choice. And yes, if you're expecting everything and everyone to be unchanged, there will be heartache and disappointment...because changes there will certainly be. But in the midst of those changes, if you're looking, you will find the remnants of the old home.
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From Christian Ethics Today:
In an article written by Foy Valentine, Valentine writes:
.
"In one of the most poignantly insightful titles in American literature, Thomas Wolfe makes the point that you can’t go home again. The point is at once practical and profound, mundane and philosophical, somber and joyous, bitter and sweet, devastating and exhilarating. Most of us have tried it a thousand ways and know with Thomas Wolfe’s George Webber... “that you can’t go home again."
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You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile... back home to lyricism.. .back home to aestheticism, back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time, back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.” [Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1941), p. 706.]"
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Love for home and coming back home is the whole theme of my blog. Being the idealist that I am, I've never thought about NOT being able, not being free, not even wanting to come back home for various and sundry reasons.
.
I am aware that you can't come back home in a spiritual sense because this, our earthly home, is only temporary. It is only when we are in the presence of God that we are truly "home". But while we remain on this earth, I believe that the place of your beginning, the place of your childhood, the place of those that watch you grow and mature, is your home.
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Coming home is a choice. And yes, if you're expecting everything and everyone to be unchanged, there will be heartache and disappointment...because changes there will certainly be. But in the midst of those changes, if you're looking, you will find the remnants of the old home.
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Home just happens to be where my heart lies.
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Have a good day!
Home just happens to be where my heart lies.
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Have a good day!
3 comments:
If home is where your heart is, as long as I'm with my bride of 40 yrs,I'll be at home. Prefer for it to be in the pine covered iron ore hills of N. E. Texas
I long for home's Home, too.
But, on this side of life I've chosen to make a new place my hometown. My husband's hometown is beginning to rub off on me. "Bloom where you're planted." If this is where my roots are then I will do my part to make it pretty. I don't even long for my old hometown much anymore.
Bless you both, crabby and Tam for your love and faithfulness to your spouses.
God was ever watchful over me when He matched H and I up as man and wife...both of us being from the same town. God knew my heart and He was already making a plan for me to come back to my earthly home.
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