It feels weird to be back in my room at seminary. In many ways it doesn’t feel like my home. It doesn’t feel right to not be in Mississippi. I miss that church – those people who are so visibly church in their hospitality and warmth. That place began to feel like home to me and I can’t remember what it was like to live here on-campus.
Perhaps that’s a side effect of moving around so much in the last six years, with college and seminary. There’s no place like home, but I don’t know where that home is for me right now.
It was Laurel, MS this summer – it just felt so right, it was such a good fit. But now I’m physically in Decatur, but not for long. In a few days I’ll fly “home” to Michigan. And really I do still call that going home. But I haven’t stayed there for more than a visit in a few years. And then I move to Florida and I’ll try to construct a home for myself there, with the knowledge that it’ll only be a temporary home.
Maybe this is all to say that I want to be somewhere permanently, but that won’t happen until at least June 2008. So what do I do in the mean time?
August 16, 2006
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Hey Emily!! This is Lauren. We all miss you at church. I am glad to hear that you are doing well. I have enjoyed reading your blog!! Keep in touch!!
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