As I transition to my journey to Morocco I am already feeling the anticipation of separation from my culture and entering another. As I pack, I am reflecting on this and anticipating the shift. A stranger and alien is what we have been called to be, but you know it isn't always a comfortable feeling. I am hearing my Father say though, instead of relieving the uncomfortable feeling just sit and feel it while you abide in me.
I was discussing with a friend today this calling to be a part of the world but separate and it isn't what we naturally bend towards. We want to be a part, seen, accepted. In our own country it is a struggle to be a "stranger", but journeying to another country it is a given and actually exciting entering a new culture. But then at times the uncomfortable feelings come, the stretching of being a "stranger and alien".
Our Beloved knew how this felt more intensely than we can imagine. I wonder if he felt uncomfortable or grieved over being away from his home and separated from His Father?
So lift me up as I prepare to meet 18 new people and form a community for the next month of "strangers and aliens" coming together in an exciting, new culture with the purpose of teaching with integrity, making connections and loving others well.
Helen-Mary ;-)
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