Finding Hope in Homesickness
Once you leave home it doesn’t take long to realize that homesickness can literally make you ill. Some days I walk around with a small level of homesickness that clings to my heart but there are other days where the weight of grief is heavier and I feel it in my chest, constricting my breath, […]
Our Home in Christ
What do you do when God closes every door you see in front of you? When you have listened to His call to leave your church home, not yet knowing what is next? When you know that leaving was the right thing to do, but it doesn’t take away the heartbreak or homesick longing for […]
Homesickness Feels Uncannily Like Grief
Like something has been taken. Like life is not in your control. The first time I felt gut-wrenching homesickness was in Guatemala. Desperate for change, physically, financially, spiritually, and emotionally we had signed up to be international teachers and get. out. of. Texas. That was when I realized that while I might logically choose to […]
Keeping Track of Sorrows
Let’s acknowledge that it hurts. At times it is a searing, sharp pain and other times it’s an underlying throb. Either way, something is missing. There was a Sunday before we headed back to Cambodia, that I was standing right next to my dad during worship. I had to sit down, as I was suddenly […]