Aliens and Strangers

I stayed over at a friend recently who had moved into her new flat two days previously. She had evidently just finished unpacking, because there were cardboard boxes all over her bedroom floor. They looked extremely out of place with the rest of her neat and tidy room, but the sight of them suddenly reminded me that our lives on earth are essentially spent living out of cardboard boxes. No matter what shape or time frame our accommodation might take form in e.g. suburban house for 20 years, penthouse flat for a year, semi-detached for five years, etc., we are aliens and strangers here on earth!

PS 'Aliens and Strangers' comes from 1 Peter 2:11.