Walking Each Other Home

by Shayla Asselin

Last Saturday morning, my living room was filled with laughter, the clinking of coffee cups, and the hum of voices that stretched across generations. Each of the girls in our teen class invited an older lady from church to brunch, and I can’t even explain how special it was. We piled our plates with food, sat at the table, and just…lingered. We laughed until our cheeks hurt, cried through tender stories, and shared memories that reminded us how much we need one another.

The generation gap got smaller that morning. For a few hours, age didn’t matter. Seasons didn’t matter. What mattered was that we were together. And as I sat there watching teenagers link arms with women who have walked with Jesus for decades, one phrase kept echoing in my mind: we’re all just walking each other Home.

Sometimes it’s easy to think friendship only “works” when someone is our age, our stage, or just like us. But God designed the Church to be this beautiful mix of people with different stories, different struggles, and different seasons that are all woven together with the same hope.

When I pick up the phone to check on a friend, when you meet someone for coffee, when we pile into a living room for dinner or game night…those aren’t just fun moments. They’re steps. Steps toward eternity. Steps we take together.

And isn’t that the sweetest part? That we don’t have to walk this road alone. God gives us sisters to steady us when the path feels steep and to cheer us on when we get tired.

Life is heavy sometimes. Schedules are full, bills stack up, kids need our attention, work drains us, and heaven can feel far away. But then a text comes through at just the right time. Or a friend shows up with coffee. Or someone prays with us after church. And suddenly...it feels lighter.

Every encouragement, every prayer, every hug is like a little reminder: keep going…we’re almost Home.

One day, all of this will end at the feet of Jesus. Until then, this is what we get to do - walk together. Young and old, joyful and hurting, steady and stumbling - we hold hands and keep moving forward.

Hebrews 10:24-25 says it like this: “And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."

The day is getting closer. The road is getting shorter. And every step we take is a little nearer to Home. That’s why God gave us each other. Not just to make the miles bearable, but to make them beautiful.

Heaven isn’t only the finish line; it’s the hope that shapes how we walk today. And when we walk together we remind each other where we’re headed.

So let’s keep showing up. Let’s keep calling, texting, listening, and loving. Because every one of those moments is another step. Together, we keep walking, sometimes leaning, sometimes leading, but always closer to Home.