Are you home?

Home for the Holidays. No place like home. I’ll be home for Christmas. Please come home for Christmas. Home is a consistent heart-whelming theme at this time of year.

For many families, the idea of home is complex. It is time spent doubling and tripling up with family members, not by choice but by need. It may be staying on the couch at night and cleaning everything up each morning. It may be bundled in the car, setting an alarm to turn the car on every so many hours trying to keep warm. It is the entire family sleeping in one room at a family shelter.

The Norman Rockwell picture perfect home setting is no longer a reality. But the longing for the feel of home remains constant through the generations. A place to feel safe and secure. A place to set up the bed and not have to put it away in the morning. A place to cook favorite meals and have friends visit. A place to celebrate a family’s traditions and holidays.

It is the goal of the Greeley Family House to help families find their place of home. To find an apartment or house that fits their family at a price that fits their budget.

The sense of home may be a little different, but the desire to have or at least to seek, that sense of home is deep rooted in all of us, especially during the winter holidays. Are you home? Feel blessed if you are there and remember those that are seeking and hoping to find their home.