This Must Be The Place
December 3-31, 2023

On the song “This Must be the Place,” from the Talking Heads’ fifth studio album, Speaking in Tongues, lead singer David Byrne sings, “Home is where I want to be, but I guess I’m already there. I come home, she lifted up her wings. I guess that this must be the place.” Byrne longs for home, and the discovery of it has caught him by surprise. He has found peace and stability, not in a place, but in the love of another. So surprising is this discovery, he goes on to ask, “Did I find you or you find me?” Whether we realize it or not, every single one of us is searching for home. We look for it in countless places, but it often feels fleeting and even hard to define. However, the invitation of the Gospel is to find home, not in a place or in a state of self-actualization, but in a person who has come in love to find you. It is in the experience of the love and grace of Jesus that we find home and can say, “This must be the place.”