End of Week 5

Happy 4th of July!!! We are ending our fifth week of living in New York and have 11 days until we leave. I'm not going to lie and say it's been easy living here! This past week I think the busyness of our schedule and just the busy city caught up to me. I was tired, ready be in my home, and wanted to curl up in bed for the rest of the day. I was craving comfort. As the days went on, the Lord slowly began to reveal that He is comfort, he is home. In our bible study here we are going through the book "Prodigal God" by Tim Keller. And he talks a lot about feelings of homelessness, that our home is in Heaven not here on this earth. I realize that no matter where I am it's never going to be home, I may feel comfortable in a place and it may be cozy, but ultimately my home is with Christ. I think this lesson is really hard to "know" sometimes, because here (america, earth, wherever) we want to be comfortable, we want to know everything is going to be okay, we want to be financially able to do anything we want to. But I think there is more to it than that. It's okay to want those things, but do you really NEED to be. What is your greater purpose in life? For the summer, my purpose has been to guide, demonstrate and teach students about Christ. Which means/is so many jobs at one time!!! But through this experience, I think I have learned more and more about depending on God at ALL times. Even though this is really really hard to do all the time, i'm learning that if I don't, life is meaningless.