Comments on: My home.

By: Debs

Debs — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:41:53 +0000

Annie, I loved this post…I have lived in over a dozen places in the last 31 years…and each one became home…and I left each “home” everytime we moved on…a part of my heart was left in each place but the Lord has always shown me just what you said…Jesus is MY HOME!

By: April Roland

April Roland — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:42:01 +0000

I love this….even the cheese…because it is so true…home is where we feel ok to be ourselves.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:52:53 +0000

I always say, home is where my parents happen to live this year! They move a lot, so I’ve never been attached to a “house” but our stuff always goes with them, so it feels the same wherever they live! It’s really about them anyway!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:53:04 +0000

So very true. Having just made a major move myself, that question comes up often in my thoughts.

And in the end, I answer it the same way you did.

Thanks for sharing.

By: the words that carry the hope » when we get home i know we wont be home at all

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:59:32 +0000

[...] you ache from the violence of separation, however temporary or eternal that separation might be. Home is where I’m good at being [myself]. Growing up i was a participant in the home my parents had built… now i’m leading and [...]

By: Jenelle

Jenelle — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:13:30 +0000

I also really like the bit about home being the place where we are most “us.” Well done.

By: ManUtd17

ManUtd17 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:04 +0000

Both times that the plane came in over the rocky shore to land in Glasgow with the greens and the blues and the grays and the low clouds, I took a deep breath and this overwhelming feeling of “home” flooded over me.

By: Janice

Janice — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:48:59 +0000

“Home is where I’m good at being Annie”

I just had that discussion with my mom on the phone this morning. I was thinking back on my recent visit to see a dear college friend in California. I commented that being with Jen felt so much like home – even though I’ve never lived in California.

And…because I felt so much like the Janice I didn’t know existed still – and the one I really am most comfortable with and am good at being.

Home for me is also lots of places, and with lots of people! (which, I’ve realized makes me always feel a little bit homesick for somewhere or someone not currently near me!)

By: Jarrod Haggard

Jarrod Haggard — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:52:04 +0000

Annie, where was that last picture taken at? It’s amazing!

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:34:44 +0000

Annie-

God called me to leave Nashville and move to Texas two years. My mentor is a 40-something South African woman who God called from South Africa to the States to mentor young women. So I asked her a few weeks ago, “Have you found in living a life for the Lord- going wherever He tells you to go- that nowhere- or the new places He calls you to- it just doesn’t really ever feel like home- your old home doesn’t feel like home anymore, and strangely, the new place doesn’t either.” I’ve lived in Texas for 2 years and still so many pieces of it don’t feel like ‘home.’ Her reply reminds me of your blog post. She said, “Yeah, you really find your truest home is in Jesus. And you find it’s in the people whom you love, it’s certain places that touch your heart, it’s experiences. In this sense, it’s actually richer, deeper, and more meaningful.”

It’s kind of all a very odd feeling, I think, but at the same time, there is no safer place to be, yeah? Blessings to you, Annie- may we keep to the journey!

–Beth