There's no place like home...

No doubt that most of you would have seen the movie the wizard of Oz. There seems to be a flaw in the story. Dorothy has been leading a rather bleak existence in Kansas when she is transported to a lovely paradise in Oz. Once there, her only wish is to return to Kansas, and this wish motivates her journey to see the Wizard. Other than her attachment to her aunt and uncle, why should she wish to leave this ideal fairyland and go back to her humdrum life on the grey (flat as a pancake) Kansas prairie? The moral seems indeed to be that "there's no place like home." A deprived existence in a miserable shack is preferable to the Garden of Eden because it's home. The truth concealed behind this saying is that the ultimate spiritual reality lies within each individual person-in their "own backyard"-and not off somewhere over the rainbow. "The kingdom of Oz is within you."

How true is that of many of us, we have the very Spirit of God living in us. And we seem unsatisfied, as if there is a constant yearning within to want more, an insatiable appetite for the things of God.

Yet scripture tells us that "....... godliness with contentment is great gain". (1 Timothy 6:6)