Advent reminds us that we are all homeless. Israel is a vine, Psalm 80 explains, which God carefully planted in the Promised Land. After an initial period of flourishing (“The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches; it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River”), God gave his vineyard over to its enemies: “Why then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit? The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.” God’s people deported and the vineyard destroyed, their home is gone.  …