"Home is a powerful but elusive concept. The strong feelings that surround it reveal some deep longing within us for a place that absolutely fits and suits us, where we can be, or perhaps find, our true selves. Yet it seems that no real place or actual family ever satisfies these yearnings, though many situations arouse them. In his novel ‘A Separate Peace’, John Knowles’s central character discovers that summer mornings in New Hampshire give him ‘some feeling so hopelessly promising that I would fall back in my bed to guard against it…I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because those mornings were too full of beauty for me.’"

Prodigal God