by jo | Dec 23, 2014 | Everyday Stories, Jesus Time, Travel
If I’m honest — which I am — homesickness is the cause of my current wandering-life phase. I’ve been saying that I’m searching for a place that feels like home. I didn’t know of any that still existed for me until one night not too...
by jo | Dec 16, 2014 | Everyday Stories, Jesus Time
I was sitting in a new church, in a new city, feeling very unknown again for the umpteenth time. It was my first time to the church, and while it felt warm and welcoming, I still felt new, knowing not a single person there. It was the end of actually a really...
by jo | Dec 9, 2014 | Everyday Stories, Travel
photo credit: [phil h] via photopin cc “Don’t tell them that you’ll keep in touch,” she said to us. “Because you won’t.” One of the school administration was talking to the group of 5 of us from the US who were brand new to the school and were there for the semester...
by jo | Nov 25, 2014 | Everyday Stories
It’s odd, because this is now the end of November, and for a month that is usually saturated in social media posts about thankfulness, I actually have only seen 2 posts of the sort this month. The month has flown by for me, and without being intentional to...
by jo | Nov 18, 2014 | Everyday Stories, Travel
I was 16 when I first went to New Orleans and the destruction was everywhere. It was April 2006, a full 7 months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged the area. I had first heard the news on the radio on the way to school in the first week back to classes my...