Serendipity (n.) – finding something good without looking for it.
When joining the World Race there is a very important stipulation you must agree upon before beginning your journey. You must completely and whole heartedly agree to leave your home for eleven months. I know, your mind is blown, right? But it's true. We agreed to leave our glorious beds, our so familiar rooms, our cell phones, our own refridgerators complete with all of our favorite foods, and our comfortable couches we snuggle up on to watch movies on our big televisions. We left the United States knowing that for eleven months we will be leaving our norms and moving from country to country, living God knows where, eating God knows what, and then finally make our ways back home. That was the agreement and that is what I had come to terms with in my head. Well, that was all a lie.
Do you wanna know what I actually found while traveling for the past five months? Home. Multiple, actually. This is a realization I received just the other day while taking a little vacation from our ministry sight to a beautiful country-side village on a mountain in Ooty, India. We were all discussing our plans to pack for our next country when we got home in a couple days…Yep, you heard right…we said "home." Home is officially Chennai, India in a children's home living with six other people. Have I lost my mind??
Let me tell you the conclusion I reached while taking a swerving bus ride through astonishing mountain villages.Home is not where my house is in West Virginia. It's not where my parents live in South Carolina. It's not where I work in Kentucky. It's not even were I lay my head at night. Home is whenever I am with God. Home is wherever God puts me. Home is where I am called to and the people I am called to live this blessed life with. It literally is where your heart is. And right now, its in a girl's orphanage in India. Last month it was in a classroom-hut in Cambodia, and next month it will be somewhere unique, doing something beautiful in Nepal.
So that's my little taste of sweet serendipity. In a crazy life full of "hurry up and wait" and "leave your expectations" I find home.
