Where is Your Place? - You need your own little Jerusalem (City of Peace).

Everyone needs a PLACE in life. Not necessarily a physical place, but a place where you feel grounded and secure, a place where you feel emotionally, mentally, spiritually at peace.

1. You need to FIND your place...
Is there a place that you long to return to? A place where you feel whole? A place where you feel completely at ease?

OR

Are you like many, "hopelessly searching for spiritual roots without earth to plant in?"

2. You need to live in your place...
Once your find you place, you've got to situate yourself in it. You've got to get accustomed to it and committed to it. You've got to understand its narratives, its traditions, its landscape, how it functions and how you function in it.

3. You need to speak the language of your place...
"When you speak, can people hear the personality of your place? Do you speak with an accent? Does your 'speech betray you,' as it did Peter with the servant girls?" (L. Sweet)

Never betray your heritage and lose your accent! Your accent isn't just in the twang in your tongue, or the local meanings of certain words and phrases, BUT in the spirit of where you come from. You speak with the accent of your heritage.

Martin Luther King made famous the words, "Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we're free at last," but those weren't his words. They come from a song called "I Shall Get Home Some Day" by Charles A Tindley, BUT when King spoke them with the accent of the black church... the pain, the struggle, the tension, the freedom, the power... The magnificence of the tradition of the black church that colored King's accent made these words immortal. What's your accent?

We all need to have a PLACE in the world. A place where we find the peace of God and the purpose of God for our lives.

Written by Frederick A Hanna