Can you feel homesick when you don’t have a home? Lately, I have found myself longing to be home, while simultaneously realizing that I no longer have one—not on this planet, anyway. They say that home is where the heart is, but there is something to be said for having a place that feels like home.
Longing for home is a topic I've explored from a different angle before, but now we are facing the reality of moving out of our houses in the United States and in Bolivia, and we are unsure of where we are going next. Our plan was for our home in Bolivia to be a familiar place for our college-age children to return to—despite being on a different continent. But now that we have made the decision to leave Bolivia, we will be saying goodbye to our house in Cochabamba.
There is a part of me that longs to return to a place filled with family memories, where I can recline in a comfortable chair or in my hammock, sipping a good cup of coffee in a relaxing and welcoming environment. I wish that we had a place to host guests or to share a meal with family and friends. But such a place now exists only in my imagination.
Once again, I am reminded that the present world is only temporary. We have the hope that one day we will be resurrected to new life, in which we will enjoy all of the pleasures and peace that this broken world cannot offer. All that we enjoy now is a shadow of the things that are to come!
