Home Far Away
Story★★★★Once there was a widow and her son who lived in a miserable attic. Years before, she had married against her parents’ wishes and had gone with her husband to live in a foreign land.
He had proved irresponsible and unfaithful, and after a few years he died without having made any provision for her and the child. It was with the utmost difficulty that she managed to scrape together the bare necessities of life.
The happiest times in the child’s life were those when the mother took him in her arms and told him about her father’s house in the old country. She told him of the grassy lawn, the noble trees, the wild flowers, the lovely pictures, and the delicious meals.
The child had never seen his grandfather’s home, but to him it was the most beautiful place in all the world. He longed for the time when he would go there to live.
One day the postman knocked at the attic door. The mother recognized the handwriting on the letter he brought and with trembling fingers broke the seal. There was a check and a slip of paper with just two words: “Come home.” –Billy Graham, Unto the Hills, (Dallas, TX, Word Publishing), 223.
Billy Graham, Unto the Hills, 223.
The point
A widow and her son living in poverty long for her father's house from childhood stories. When an invitation finally arrives saying 'Come home,' it beautifully illustrates the Christian's longing for heaven and God's call.