tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15221347.post4188539160878082485..comments2023-09-28T03:32:47.642-07:00Comments on Cultivating: new girl in town...Joanna Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02568835279054666132noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15221347.post-21127566557304018312008-04-29T06:38:00.000-07:002008-04-29T06:38:00.000-07:00The sense of 'homesickness' never leaves, the long...The sense of 'homesickness' never leaves, the longer ... and the closer you follow The Lord, it appears to me.<BR/><BR/>The mistake we all too easily make is in settling for a "sense of home" here. <BR/><BR/>We like that feeling of familiarity, but it inevitably leads us to a more shallow satisfaction about life and humanity and God's Great creation. <BR/><BR/>The longing for home is intensified the longer we are "away from our roots" ... but being away, at the very least, unblinds us to the fact that we can never "go back" ... we can only go on.<BR/><BR/>Those who "stay around home" too long develop a narrow view on life, and a preference for living in a world where nothing ever changes ... all the while the world is spinning on ahead of them, leaving them behind as it makes it's way "...ever turning toward that one, far-off Divine Event" (Tennyson).<BR/><BR/>That's where we find Home.<BR/><BR/>If we've really been looking of it.<BR/><BR/>It's there, because of the One Who left His Home to come get us and take us there.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16908652871070362693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15221347.post-18259814319705198672008-04-28T06:52:00.000-07:002008-04-28T06:52:00.000-07:00Oh, Joanna. I remember when you looked like that p...Oh, Joanna. I remember when you looked like that picture! Who was this tiny spit-fire that was always at my house when I came home from college for the weekend? She sure liked to giggle and she made my little sis very happy! :) I'm sure that wherever God places you, you will be giggling and making someone very happy.<BR/><BR/>-"Big Sis" MelisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15221347.post-21645053028590911172008-04-26T17:46:00.000-07:002008-04-26T17:46:00.000-07:00Be brave, princess. You will never walk alone. T...Be brave, princess. You will never walk alone. That "little girl" adventuresome spirit, gumption and trusting heart is still there. Be brave, princess, be brave! You are loved...Lesliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978866785829710223noreply@blogger.com