"You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place." -Miriam Adeney, anthropologist.
I read this quote in College Park Church's Vision Trip manual, which I'm currently reading for a project I'm working on for Pastor Doug. The quote was in relation to debriefing from a missions trip. Tears sprang (sprung?) to my eyes the second I read it, because it is SO TRUE.
No matter where I go, no matter what I'm doing, Peru is always so close to the surface. I am always restless. The mere sound of Spanish being spoken makes my heart leap. Certain smells and tastes take me back almost immediately to those smoky, dusty streets. A picture, a song, a memory, a random quote, and I'm in tears again.
PART OF MY HEART will always be there. I will never be completely at home again.
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