Love this video! Happy Father's Day to all of you Dads. Ken is in the Dominican Republic this week with a mission team, so this is dedicated to him. We miss you and we promise to keep our "peanut butter hands off your 50" vizio" while you're gone!
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Can I be real?
It has now been a year since we returned to the states from living overseas. So much has happened in this short amount of time it really feels like it has been much longer. Strangely enough it still feels foreign to us to be here. I guess there is a piece of us still there that will never belong here, no matter where "home" for us may be.
Just last weekend we were able to spend some time with some old friends from Ecuador that served with us, but spent many more years as missionaries than we did. As I talked with them I saw that they too struggle with many of the feelings we have. In some ways it is almost like mourning the loss of something that was once a part of you. And, although we know that regardless of where we live we will always be missionaries, we know in our heart that not all mission fields feel like "home".
So this is a shout out to all of our old missionary friends either living on the field, returning from the field, retired from the field...can I be real? Do you ever stop feeling that hole deep inside for the people and places that you served? Is this a unique feeling, or is it just me? I am just curious, because as the year has passed I feel that this has not abated at all and I wonder if it is a singular feeling or if it is something universal felt by all former missionaries. Please feel free to be real with me too.
Just last weekend we were able to spend some time with some old friends from Ecuador that served with us, but spent many more years as missionaries than we did. As I talked with them I saw that they too struggle with many of the feelings we have. In some ways it is almost like mourning the loss of something that was once a part of you. And, although we know that regardless of where we live we will always be missionaries, we know in our heart that not all mission fields feel like "home".
So this is a shout out to all of our old missionary friends either living on the field, returning from the field, retired from the field...can I be real? Do you ever stop feeling that hole deep inside for the people and places that you served? Is this a unique feeling, or is it just me? I am just curious, because as the year has passed I feel that this has not abated at all and I wonder if it is a singular feeling or if it is something universal felt by all former missionaries. Please feel free to be real with me too.
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