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I seem to be in an interesting spot these days as we prepare for a year of home assignment in the States.\u00a0 I recently read a blog I had written as we were going to be returning back from the States to be long term missionaries.\u00a0 You may wonder what missionaries think or feel or react when they are preparing for home assignment or furlough.\u00a0 It’s an interesting place to be and by interesting I mean overwhelming and strange and foreign and exciting and scary all wrapped in to one.\u00a0 It’s hard to pin point one feeling or reaction or thought because there are just too many.\u00a0 I’m trying to write this blog to make sense and put in to words what is in my mind and my heart.<\/p>\n

The honest truth is that it has taken quite a while to get used to the idea of going back to the States for a year.\u00a0 We try as missionaries so hard to immerse ourselves in our country of service by learning the language, raising our kids, doing ministry together, learning culture, trying to be accepted and now we go back to our passport country, a place that should feel like home, but seems to be more of distant memory of familiar, things that were comfortable but now feel foreign and overwhelming.<\/p>\n

I was listening to a song today, because, well it seems God always seems to touch my heart through melodies and words that seem to express the things my own words can’t.\u00a0 SO, I’m listening to a song today from when I was younger.\u00a0 It reminded me how easy it was then to say Hallelujah and to take leaps of faith, giant leaps of faith without thinking.\u00a0 Then, I always wondered why those who were wiser than me struggled so much with these leaps.\u00a0 They didn’t seem like that big of a deal to me.\u00a0 But now, NOW, thinking of those leaps scares me to death sometimes.\u00a0 It’s harder now.\u00a0 Maybe it is the life experience from then to now.\u00a0 Knowing I’m not invincible, knowing that death happens, unfair things happen to good people, I’ve seen it and experienced it.\u00a0 So, when we say Hallelujah, to me it means that whatever is in front of us, whether we know what it is or not, we will say Hallelujah.\u00a0 That is SO hard.\u00a0 We don’t know what tomorrow holds, or a week from now or next year.\u00a0 As I prepare to step in to the overwhelming unfamiliar, I ask God to help me to say Hallelujah, no matter what the future holds.\u00a0 I’m learning, I’m trying to choose Christ over the fear.<\/p>\n

In good Kim fashion I am posting the song that started this whole thought process.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DRQDCz60sD8<\/p>\n

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