Hopi Land 2

To an outsider like me, this dry and desolate Arizona land doesn't elicit passionate thoughts of belonging and home. But that's because I'm not a Hopi. I saw New Orleans after Katrina and wondered, "Why would anybody try to rebuild here?" I felt that way because I'm an outsider; New Orleans just isn't "home" for me.

The land of our birth forges a strong bond with our souls; of all the wonderful and exciting and beautiful places on earth, there is only one "home." When we get to heaven, we will discover--whatever our homeland on earth--that we are all finally and truly "at home."

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