This Last Week

I’m going to be straight with you.

This last week was hard.

This week I figured out my heart hurt from being 10,000 miles away from my “old life”.

Focused on getting everyone else settled and “keeping it together”, I hadn’t realized this ache I had in my heart...until now...just as we’re getting settled and the chaos is calming down. For the first time in almost 6 months, I realized I was homesick. 

I wanted nothing more this week than to pick up the phone and talk to my parents or hang out with my girlfriends til the wee hours of the morning. I wanted to take my nieces for sno cones and play farm animals with my nephews. I wanted to try my hand at a round of dominoes with my grandmother...and even be content to have her beat me :) I would have taken a day of being harassed about my Sooners from the guys at church! 

There may or may not have been a few tears shed this week.

I’ve heard that homesickness comes in waves and often when you least expect it.
Will the waves of ache ever go away or is it something you learn to deal with as time passes? And how do you “deal” with it? I've found this answer is as different as the people giving the answer.

Still, after all the thinking and praying of this past week, I’m left wondering if maybe some of the ache remains so you continue clinging to the One that offers freely His peace and love soothing even the worst hurting, aching, homesick heart.