The Asians close the season by talking about life’s ordinary things. Matt insists the meaning of life is steam – the sigh above a bamboo basket, – but beneath it all, what we are really searching for is home.

For migrants, “Where do you come from?” is never a simple question. The answer is layered: birthplace and accent, memory and longing, language half-forgotten at the dinner table, stories carried across oceans in reused plastic bags. But for Christians, the answer becomes stranger still: even those settled in one place are taught they are pilgrims, living between worlds.

So Matt and Dan wander through the idea of home itself — memory, longing, belonging, and desire. Following Augustine like two tired uncles carrying groceries uphill, the Asians revisit the old saying that home is where the heart is, discovering that the heart itself is restless until it rests in God.

In the end, the Asians suggest that the Christian life may simply be a long homesickness: learning where, and to whom, the heart truly belongs.

Resources

Pritvi Prakash & Ashwyn: Home is Where the Heart

Matthew Tan: Catholic Migrant Identity After Augustine, Bonaventure and Ratzinger