There is a longing in every heart that nothing in this world can satisfy. We try new places, new accomplishments, new identities, even new versions of ourselves, hoping one of them will finally feel like home. Yet the quiet ache remains.

A Course in Miracles tells us why.

We are homesick—not for a place on earth, but for the peace of God that has never truly left us.

This lesson invites us to stop searching long enough to remember. Beneath every defense, every role we play, and every effort to prove ourselves worthy is the holy child within us—completely innocent, completely loved, and quietly calling us home.

The Course offers a beautiful paradox: our defenselessness is our strength. We don't return to God by becoming someone better. We return by laying down the masks we never needed and resting, if only for an instant, in the truth of what we already are.

Each moment of stillness becomes a doorway. We discover that home was never somewhere else. It has always been waiting beneath the noise of the world, within the quiet sanctuary of our own heart.

I will be still an instant and go home.