They even built houses without dining rooms. Big kitchens were all they wanted. They lived their whole lives in those kitchens, around the stove, eating, talking, playing cards, reading newspapers, drinking coffee. When they weren t around the stove, they were in church, in God s home, but that s another story.
Home is where the stove is.
Food, warmth, acceptance, I can find it all at the stove. We can all reflect on what home is to us where we feel most comfortable where there is a sense of belonging and being at comfort. Our Gospel reading for this First Sunday in Advent seems to be filled with fright. We ve reading from the Book of Revelations in these days before Advent and as the old liturgical year ended. And the readings would talk about numbers and signs and hints of the end time.