As we set out to travel for 4 weeks, we worked hard to settle the kids down-to help ground them. We reminded them that where we are, together, is home. I'm still working on that lesson! When packing for 3 months of travel last summer, J wanted tape. When I asked him for what (it's a precious commodity around here with a daughter who loves to create!) he held up a little sign he'd made. He wanted to tape it to his backpack "so I won't forget, mom" he said. Cut out from plain notebook paper he'd written 'I miss home.' a Couple weeks ago, before daddy flew out, he was a mess of emotions. We had to regroup and let him know all those emotions of travel and disconnecting and reconnecting are normal and we have them too. We pray over our children a lot in this lifestyle. I wonder someday what J will see that will make him think of home. I wonder where that place will be that he associates with home. In the meantime, he is learning what all of us who belong to another Kingdom must learn: we truly are strangers in a foreign land. Thank God someday we will be home permanently with Him!
As we set out to travel for 4 weeks, we worked hard to settle the kids down-to help ground them. We reminded them that where we are, together, is home. I'm still working on that lesson! When packing for 3 months of travel last summer, J wanted tape. When I asked him for what (it's a precious commodity around here with a daughter who loves to create!) he held up a little sign he'd made. He wanted to tape it to his backpack "so I won't forget, mom" he said. Cut out from plain notebook paper he'd written 'I miss home.' a Couple weeks ago, before daddy flew out, he was a mess of emotions. We had to regroup and let him know all those emotions of travel and disconnecting and reconnecting are normal and we have them too. We pray over our children a lot in this lifestyle. I wonder someday what J will see that will make him think of home. I wonder where that place will be that he associates with home. In the meantime, he is learning what all of us who belong to another Kingdom must learn: we truly are strangers in a foreign land. Thank God someday we will be home permanently with Him!
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