Home.

Yesterday I found a site online with a true-time satellite image of the globe. At the bottom of the page there were instructions on how to click a location and zoom in to see it better. I could have selected anywhere on the globe, but instinctively I clicked Michigan. Without any thought of what that meant, I waited for the site to give me a glimpse of my home. I was sorely disappointed when the site wouldn’t give me a close view of Stadium or Paw Paw Lake Drive. Click the read more button the keep reading!

I could tell that it was night. I imagined my friends and family sleeping. In just a moment, a hundred faces flashed through my mind. I can’t explain how, but each time I saw a face, I pictured the life that person was living all the way across the world- Kalamazoo, Chicago, Huntington and all of the places we have scattered.

Since arriving to Asia, I cannot count how many times someone has asked me “where home is.” My response has always been, that I don’t really have one. Our apartment is no longer our apartment. I haven’t lived on Roush 1^st in a year. I haven’t lived in the Berger household for 2.

Still, I realized yesterday that my home is in the relationships that God has blessed me with. No matter where I go, my home is not tied to an area of land. I will always be a wanderer… not because I might be traveling. I think it’s because as life continues, little pieces of me are tied to different people. The only way I will feel truly at home is when we are all united.

This is why I pray that the restoration of this world would come soon. In God’s Kingdom, we will sing with one voice. I will be home when Christ’s prayer is answered.

“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,  that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—  I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”

-John 17:20-23

And for all of those who were wondering, yes I am feeling much better! Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.