Salmon do it. Hummingbirds do it. Butterflies do it. Turtles do it. All these creatures, and many more: they all . . . go home again.

Salmon find their way from the vast ocean back to whatever tiny tributary in which they were hatched. Hummingbirds fly over 6000 miles to find their nesting sites. Butterflies congregate in the same trees, generation after generation. Migrating turtles closed down whole runways this past summer (2011) at JFK Airport as they made their way back to home ground.

The instinct to “go home” is world-wide, widespread in creation and often times unstoppable.

Forget the stockpile of stuff you gathered during last weekend’s “Black Friday” madness. Remember as you thought about this Christmas that twinge of home-sickness? There is in each of us a “homing instinct” t…