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Dorothy from Wizard of Oz said it best: There really is “no place like home.” Home is where we share an irreplaceable treasure of memories with the people we love most. Home is where our hearts can melt into the safety of a joyful sense of true belonging.
As we celebrate homecoming this week, our doors and hearts are open. Alumni return, friends are reunited, stories of cherished memories are shared, and new ones are created. There truly is no place like a university that feels like home, where you have been shaped, guided and loved into a better version of yourself.
As people of faith, we are blessed to realize that heaven will be our ultimate homecoming experience. One day, we will fully return into the glory of our Father’s heart and experience a sense of reunion beyond what we can imagine from our earthly vantage point.
Even our gorgeous campus with fall leaves glistening in the breeze can’t compare to the majesty of eternal life that we will one day experience as believers.
Thankfully, we don’t have to click our heels together to gain access to Christ - no flights, hotel reservations or long drives are required either. Jesus proclaimed “The Kingdom of God” is at hand, and his words are still true today.
Every day can be homecoming for believers because at every moment, we are welcome to dwell in our Father’s heart, which is filled with grace beyond our wildest dreams. Every day, we can be shaped, guided and molded into a better version of ourselves by choosing to accept his unconditional love.
As we celebrate the special connection we share as Ambrosians this weekend, I pray our hearts can melt into the safety of a joyful sense of true belonging as members of the body of Christ.
The crisis in the Holy Land has unfolded into humanitarian catastrophe after the October 7 attack on Israel, which is being met with a bombardment of retaliatory strikes on Gaza. More than 4,300 deaths have been reported across the region, not including the impact of a recent deadly hospital blast in Gaza city that is estimated to have claimed hundreds of lives. An estimated 1 million people, almost half the population, are displaced following an order for people to evacuate the northern part of Gaza.
In coordination with partners across the region, CRS is helping to meet urgent needs. We are responding to the rapidly changing context, and are being especially mindful of people’s needs—both physical and emotional—at a time of tremendous uncertainty, fear, loss and despair. CRS is able to draw on our extensive experience and partnerships in the Holy Land, where we have been active for decades, including responses to the needs brought by the 2014 war and successive conflicts.
With your gift, families affected by violence in the Holy Land will receive assistance.
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