Coming Home

When the journey ends, the real homecoming begins - within.

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There’s a moment in life when we stop looking for peace somewhere else — in the next place, the next role, or the next version of ourselves — and finally realize it’s been waiting inside us all along.

That’s what Coming Home is about.  Not geography. Not arrival in the literal sense. But that quiet exhale when we stop running from our own story and begin to rest inside it.

For me, it happened one evening after I returned to Florida. I was sitting outside in the dark, listening to the wind move gently across the pool, the palms whispering a familiar song. I suddenly realized — I no longer missed what I thought I would; not the mountains, not the seasons and not the rush of a busy life.

I was content.

So often, we think home is something waiting out there — a better job, a new relationship, a place that will finally make us feel complete. But home isn’t something we find; it’s something we recognize. It’s that quiet moment when you realize you already belong where you are, even if it’s just for a season.

Coming home doesn’t arrive with fanfare or applause. It slips in quietly — like the sigh after a long stretch of holding your breath.  It’s the moment you stop proving, stop striving, and simply allow yourself to rest in the peace of the life you’ve been working on. 

This week, I invite you to ask yourself:
Where does my spirit exhale?

It might be a place, a ritual, a person, or a single unguarded moment in the day. That’s your compass. That’s home.  Before we can give thanks or begin again, we have to arrive. Sometimes coming home is less about finding a new place and more about finally seeing the beauty in where you already are.

Thank you for walking with me through this quiet season of change.

I’m Catherine Schaffer, and this is Savage Grace Resilience in Real Life.
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✨ Author’s Note

Each Wednesday in November, a new reflection from the Resilience in Real Life series will appear here on Substack:

·       Nov 6: Coming Home

·       Nov 13: The Quiet Season

·       Nov 20: The Language of Becoming

·       Nov 27: Gratitude in the Hard Places

If these reflections resonate with you, I’d love for you to subscribe, share, or simply take a quiet moment each week to reflect. Together, we’ll honor this gentle season of stillness, gratitude, and renewal.