California, thats what I call home. A place where my friends, family and material "necessities" are located. Home is where that heart is right?! That is something I have been wondering about lately. I feel like I could say home is here with all my things and family, but then I wonder… How do I know for sure? The truth is, I don't. I have no clue, I think that a definition of home is not always where we live and have all our close family and friends. I think that is what we want to call home because that is where we are most comfortable. There is nothing wrong with being comfortable, but I just don't think we should be comfortable until we know that we have lived. Until we explore, take chances and in my case, trust God in using me for this trip. How do I know that I wont feel just as home is South Africa, or in Romania, or in Vietnam with people that really do have to work to live. By that I mean, with people who are lucky to have a single meal a day, with people who live lives humbly and who are constantly grateful to be able live another day?! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE MY FAMILY, MY FRIENDS, MY LUXURIES, all right here in perfect sunny southern California, but I really do feel like I have a heart for all those people who fight to live, wether it be for themselves, their family, or for the few who have been delivered with the grace and hope that comes from God. I want to meet these people, live with them, understand them, learn from them, and just love them. Jesus had dinner a Levi's house with the "sinners", he reached out to those who no one else bothered to pay attention to, the ones who were lacking the Lord most. From what I have read from other bloggers that have been or are on their trip, these people have the spirit, to accept the Lord and run with him, but if there is no one willing to reach out like Jesus did with the tax collectors and the "sinners", then there is no hope. So, again I wonder if home for me can be where the Lord thrives most, where people have the least but where love, life, and hope are most respected. Just something that I've been thinking about.
