Tracing Thoughts
July 25, 2013 Beijing Tomorrow I leave China. Again. I keep thinking of the blog post title from the Blazing Center -- Going, Not Knowing... And how all of life is a going without knowing, but leaving China particularly feels that way. Because something in my heart whispers Maybe Simon is right, maybe you'll never come back. I don't know if it's truth of things to come or just a fear... March 10, 2014 bus to Chicago ...mostly I cried because it hurts to not have a home. There are plenty of places that I'm welcome. Plenty of people who gladly open their homes and lives and hearts to me. But my family and my church are in two different places and I'm in still another -- and I feel splintered, fragmented... I'm wishing for something that cannot be, for the clock to turn back. December 2, 2014 Btown I am so very bad at staying. 18 years in my hometown and then it's like I was suddenly cut loos to be carried by the wind... The thought is