If we are pilgrims, why doesn't most of our life look like that? Today we let the chapter ask the question it has been building toward, and we sit with the answer.

In this letter

The honest tension between pilgrim identity and settled American life

Hebrews 11:35-38 — the family who were tortured, mocked, scourged, sawn in two, who wandered in caves

Why faith does not promise comfort, and what it promises instead

Hebrews 11:15 — the road home is always open, and that is the danger

The ache as gift, not as enemy

Scripture

Hebrews 11:15

Hebrews 11:35-38

Hebrews 11:39

The question to sit with

What in your life has become a permanent address, when it should be a tent?

Coming tomorrow | The Whole Letter. The full message, distilled.

There'll be more mail tomorrow.