Just a couple weeks ago, I packed up my things from our tiny GCU apartment and loaded down my car with quite literally all that I owned. I’m not entirely sure if it was graduating and leaving Phoenix or just driving around with all of my possessions packed into that 2002 Ford Explorer, but this season of life has definitively called to question the concept of “Home” in my heart and mind.
In just 3 ½ short years, GCU and the surrounding Phoenix area became my home. Before I knew it, I had a kitchen, a job, a church, a favorite restaurant, a weekly dinner, a family of friends, and familiar routine that presented both comforts and adventures. Yet, now I am back in Boise, my true home-town, with family, a cat, a new apartment, a roommate, and a familiar city filled with memories. So again, I have found myself at home.
But in August I will again pack up my belongs into that Explorer before leaving for a new adventure on the World Race—where for a year I will have a new home every month as we travel from country to country. I am excited to have a new family and church as I travel and grow with my team, but even them I will eventually have to leave.
This loving and losing, constantly uprooting, is honestly hard to endure and look forward to, but it has been an ever present reminder that this—here and now—is just my temporary home. As believers, our true home is with our Heavenly Father in His presence forever. Oh how I long to be with Him and with a family that I will never have to say goodbye to, where there is always an overwhelming sense of belonging!
However, in this world, change, loss, and goodbyes are a given, and the Lord even calls us to hold our days loosely as foreigners living for what is eternal rather than perishable (1 Peter 1:17-25). In this way, while I am excited to build deep relationships wherever I am in these next few years, please be praying for my heart as “Goodbyes” are still hard for me and frankly just hurt.
Please be praying that God would be preparing me and my team for the work that He has for us in the coming year. Specifically, would currently appreciate prayers for a full-time, temporary job here. Thanks so much for your support!
Looking forward to what God has in store! Please comment and share, my heart is to truly partner with you. This blog is an amazing way to stay in touch and share what God is doing through this journey—start to finish.
