OUR QUEST FOR HOME

 

Two significant events occurred on Friday, June 23, 2023. The day marked fifty years of marriage for Launa and me. Secondly, Amazon Books notified us that our memoir, Our Quest for Home, was available for customers to purchase. The publication captured a few high-points in our fifty years of marriage.

In less than 100 pages we interwove stories of romance, laughter and courage. The subtitle contends that the book contains stories of faith, family and friendships. You can expect to read truthful stories of people. People who lived at and visited some of the fourteen places we lived during our marriage. Read about people who endeared themselves to our joy of entertaining and shared their stories of pain and warmth.

In describing the good, the bad and the ugly, pseudonyms were used at times to protect the identities  and reputations of family members, colleagues and friends. Our intention was to show how God worked through positive and negative events in our lives to hone our characters. In addition, God used our quest for homes to stretch our faith and provide opportunities to testify of His faithfulness.

In his Foreword to our first published work, Dr Clyde Bailey said – “Let me invite you to not put this book  down, because you are entering the world of the Corbins, and this book is more, so much more that the title suggests. You hold in your hand the chronicles of life that this delightful Caribbean couple has chosen to share with you. It reads like an anthology of fiction, make-believe, unbelievable, fantasy, but it is all truth.”

Dr Bailey went on to contend that the book “transcends the boundaries of your imagination, and you’ll soon realize that the literary genius of the quintessential storyteller, and the encyclopedic recollection of the other, pull you into a feast of delightful tales. You will hear of miracles and unusual blessings found only in this book. The compelling stories deny you the option to put the book down, and when it is over, you’re going to be glad you took the time to read Our Quest for Home”.

In the final chapter, we mentioned that we do not foresee the need for another move in the immediate future. However, we see the need to live with a perspective of a final move. A final move that prepares us for the home Jesus has gone to prepare for those that love Him.

In preparing His disciples for his pending departure, Jesus said to them that he was going to prepare a place for them, before returning for them (John 14:2). Jesus made it very clear that his return would include his disciples and others who shared their faith in him as Saviour. That message of his return was echoed by the angels to those who witnessed the ascension of Jesus (Acts 1:11). Like the angels, writers of the New Testament believed that Jesus would return, having left earth to prepare a home for those who love him.

If Jesus does not return as he promised, he would be considered to be a failure, in that he would not have kept his promise. In addition, the promise of the Holy Spirit as a guarantee of his return would be a hoax (Ephesians 1:13). Furthermore, the credibility of New Testament writers would be ruined – they strongly vouched for the return of Jesus. Honestly, the chances of his return far out-way those of his failure to return.

Hence, Our Quest for Home, is both stories of God’s faithfulness and stories of Jesus’ promise to prepare a home for those who love him. Our memoir is available through Amazon Books, but the Jesus of our faith is available through a personal commitment. Of this Jesus, his disciples Peter and John said, “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).