home is where your boat is

well after 15 months, im home. i feel like this is finally my home. the people, my students, the smells, the 15-hour days. they are all apart of my life and i feel like its finally familiar. even with the long days and some of the stress, i feel like this is again, where i belong. i feel so much of God's presence here and i see the Gospel loved out so much more then anywhere else. as the semester slowly comes to an end, and the end of my time here, gets closer, i can see how much i have touched the lives here, but more so, how much they really have touched mine. 

and when i leave, i know i will have such beautiful thoughts of Chuuk and of Micronesia. i know that i will have so much hope for this place, because i see that drive and motivation in the young generation of Micronesians. overall, i guess:

i see hope. i see love. i see home. i see God.