Today I needed a hug.
My first run in with homesickness.
It has only been three weeks and I am already feeling like I am missing out on so much back home. All my friends are starting to go back to school and my nephew and niece are growing up with out me.
Today was a great Sabbath. We took our 7-day dorm students (mine are all international students from Viet Nam) to a special Sabbath school that a family (the Papayanis') does for the international students that is an intro to God's love because many of them don't know God at all. We just played some get-to-know-you games and had breakfast.
Then we went to church at The Place. This is the local church that is full of young families, so it is very contemporary. They always have an awesome song service and the pastor is full of energy.
Then we all went to the Papayanis house for Sabbath lunch and games. As we were playing games, I was having a great time until it hit me. I suddenly felt alone. I didn't know any of these people and they don't really know me. All I wanted was a hug and to be told that everything was going to be alright and I couldn't get that from anyone.
Sometimes I really wonder what I am doing out here and how I am going to make it a whole school year so far away from everything I know. I have to constantly remind myself that God is a God of Adventure, and He has got my back through this all. Often trusting His plan is so hard because of all of the unknowns, but I know in the end I will look back and see all the places He held me and pulled me through.
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