I've been doing really well with the whole homesick thing and living away from home, but every once in a while it hits and I just feel really lonesome for my friends and family....for people who know me and know my story...for community. A friend from home emailed me today in response to something I'd sent her and it was just so sweet that I was just overwhelmed with a longing for home. I know that there are many days before me when these feelings will hit and I will deal with them as they come. I just emailed her back and told her that while I am thankful for these last 2 months here and where they're leading, I have some anxiety at the same time about Italy....not about whether or not I should be going because I know without a doubt that this is what God has for me...but rather about finding community there because regardless of what these past 2 months have been they have been really lonely. And anyone who knows me knows that I am by nature an extrovert...I find life in being around people....so not having had that these past 2 months after having been blessed so richly with that these last several years has been difficult. I know without any doubt that God has called me to where I am going. So, if that's the case then wouldn't that stand to reason that He has also prepared that place for me?
I hope that you have had the opportunity to know what it is to be a member of true community...a place where it's safe to be you and to be loved for that. It's an incredibly freeing and safe place to be. If you don't know what that's like...I pray that you seek it out. Relationship is, after all, what we were created for in the first place.
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