“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”
- Miriam Adeney At this time one month ago, I was in Atlanta, Georgia beginning the process of unraveling from the last three months. It was something that I was entirely and wholeheartedly ready for yet so unprepared. The previous three months had been seeing parts of the world that I couldn’t have ever envisioned, experienced a sense of community that is now so special to me, meeting people in different nations & cultures that I left a piece of my heart with, and I believe I came home different. I recently saw the quote at the beginning of this post, and it resonated so perfectly with how I feel. Since being home, I’ve wanted to share about what it’s like for me, but my heart & mind have been so all over the place it seems. What that quote means to me is not that I won’t feel at home where I currently am, and it doesn’t mean I will always be wanting to go somewhere else in the world, but what it does mean is because of where I’ve been, I feel at home because of the people i’ve met along the way. I feel at home in the states that I have family & friends, at Danita’s Children in Haiti, the ten other states of my teammates from Southeast Asia, at Outpour Movement in Thailand, at New Hope for Orphans in Cambodia, and all the people in between along the way. It also hasn’t been the easiest transition being home, and there has definitely been some ups & downs both emotionally and spiritually. But through that, it has also been so good. What I learned is that this journey that began before going to Southeast Asia may continue inside and around me for a long time because God always has something new waiting.
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