Going Back Home

This incredible true story captures in a very poignant way, the power and truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Christina ran away from home breaking her mother’s heart. Knowing what life on the streets would be like for her daughter, the mother hurriedly packed to go find her.

On her way to the bus stop she entered a drugstore to get one last thing. Pictures. She sat in the photograph booth and spent all she had on pictures of herself. With her purse full of small black-and-white photos, she boarded a bus. She knew Christina had no way of earning money. She also knew that her daughter was too stubborn to give up.

Knowing this, she began to search. At each place she left her picture—taped on a bathroom mirror, tacked to a hotel bulletin board, fastened to a corner phone booth. And on the back of each photo she wrote a note. Her money and pictures ran out, and she had to go home.

It was a few weeks later that her daughter Christina descended the hotel stairs. Her young face was tired. Her dream had become a nightmare. A thousand times over she had longed to be home. As she reached the bottom of the stairs, there on the lobby mirror was a small picture of her mother. Christina’s eyes burned and began to fill with tears as she walked across the room and removed the small photo. Written on the back was this compelling invitation. “Whatever you have done, whatever you have become, it doesn’t matter. Please come home.” She did.

Spiritually all of us are runaways. We have turned our own way and we have run from God, breaking His heart. But the Gospel says to us, “Whatever you have done, whatever you have become, it doesn’t matter. Please come home.”

Will you?