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Seems like just about every time I\u2019m out in the truck, whether it has been a morning\u2019s work at the mission or a long hot day\u2019s visit across the river, when I see the group of kolongo palm trees just ahead at the turn of the road, a peace settles over me.\u00a0 When I see those trees, I know just around the corner is the green gate and I\u2019m home.\u00a0 Home.\u00a0 Home really is where the heart is.\u00a0 Home to me is where I can be myself and know that I\u2019m still loved.\u00a0 I can blurt out my frustrations or laugh out loud at some silly goof from my day and my sweet husband will listen and take the heat or the joy and still love me and pray with me and choose to be by my side.<\/p>\n

\"blog<\/a>I have a lovely charm bracelet that my kids have contributed to, and one of the charms is a tiny house with a heart in the window.\u00a0 When I look at that little house, I am reassured that even though living might have been tough with separations and our houses may have been here, there and everywhere, my kids still tell me that they trust in a heart home with me, wherever that may be.\u00a0 That, to this mother\u2019s heart, is a huge gift.\u00a0\u00a0 But where is my true heart home?\u00a0 I have the same sense of the kolongo palm trees telling me I\u2019m home, of feeling that deep peace when I come round a corner and see evidence of God\u2019s love and forgiveness.\u00a0 It may be in quiet times reading the Word, it may be in a crying, frustrated and desperate prayer, it may be in the beauty of a lily, or it may be in the smile and hug of a friend.\u00a0 God\u2019s loving grace in my life provides me with a solid never failing heart home.\u00a0 May His name be praised!<\/p>\n

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