today I feel strangely homesick, except I cannot figure out what that means.

I love my home.  I love my husband and my kids.  I drank in the presence of my best friend, even if it was just a few minutes.  I thought of my other best friend and her expanding belly, and knew that I was loved despite the distance that prevents any face to face.  Our house guest is adapting to "us" incredibly well, and his independence is an added blessing I thought I could only wish for (after the guest we had last summer).  So, what is it?

perhaps you know ...

Posted by Juliestew

I feel that homesick feeling too.
And for me, it's because this place is not my home. I long for heaven. Somedays it's almost as if I can taste it. It's usually when life feels real hard that I long for the arms of my Savior and for a place where there is no hurt. Many of my friends desire to live this life. They are okay with the here and the now. But give the choice over heaven or here? I'm longing for home.
Maybe this helps...
Julie

Posted by ClagettsFLStyle

When we first moved here I never wanted to go back. It was wierd... MD was a place where I was born and raised, but I never felt settled there. Then we moved south and when we got here I felt settled... until...
Lately I have being feeling unsettled.. though not like up north. I LOVE living in the south (though I'd prefer GA - another story) but now I talk about it more with my DH. I think it's just a restless spirit that is inside me. It's something that I have to be consious of, because it can lead me in the wrong directions.
I guess we will never be settled here... if we were.. we would never look unto Heaven... Oh Lord, come quickly - Maranatha!!

Don't know if that helps you any, but sometimes it feels good to know your not alone..

Have a great week

Posted by SmallWorld

Hmmmm.....

Posted by bestsister

I love how you said that: "I drank in the presence of my friend"

The double meaning of that was not lost on me today. Yes we drank (a beverage) in the presence of each other, but I also 'drank in' the presence of you yesterday too. Can two families be a village?

Posted by Anonymous

Maybe its just the season! I hate being restless! Maybe you just need to take a nap and refresh your spirits.

Mrs darling
http://peterpanandfamily.blogspot.com

Posted by Jewelz

Yea, it's a strange thing isn't it. I am a mother of 5 children and life is always busy and full, yet sometimes I feel the ache, the loneliness, the longing for heaven. Some days I feel it so deep that it hurts. Yea, homesickness.

For many years I stayed so busy that I didn't know the ache was there. I was a busy, Christian woman. To look at me you would have thought I was doing all the right things. But all I was doing was filling my time with stuff, numbing the ache, staying busy so as not to feel the demands of life, the ache of missing my "home".

Solomon had an idea of it. He had everything he could want in life and yet the words he wrote in Ecclesiastes are "meaningless, meaningless, everything's meaningless." What he realized is that nothing but God makes life meaningful. Even with all that he had he ached for something more, something lost. We too are like Solomon.

We ache, and long for something more, we long for home. We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a physical experience. This is not our home.

In the days that I feel the homesickness, ache and mundane of life I cry out to Him, asking Him to fill me to the fullness with Him. In those days I get a small taste of what it must have felt like to be Jesus and be away from His Father, here on earth.

Homesickness, yea, I understand.

Jewelz

Edited by Jewelz on Jun. 20, 2007 at 6:51 PM

Posted by Clanclave

Do you think that a few hours break would work? I'm a military brat so I know the feeling of being a vagabond and not feeling "at home" yet I get homesick for the places I loved the most.

You posted on my blog about a particular movie. I loved that movie!! I did have that movie in my mind when coming up with the name for my blog, however with being Irish and Catholic, "Conclave" is the word for when the Church's Cardinals are seeking the guidance of the Holy Spirit to guide them to decide who our next Pope will be. I merged the two words together because we are a "clan" yet we're always seeking the guidance of the Holy Spirit (through the Holy Mother Church) to make the right choices for our family and to keep us straight.

And thank you for your comments on my blog. You're very correct in stating The Price is Right is pretty family oriented. I'm afraid if they put Rosie on it, it will no longer be that way. I can appreciate differing views but I can't tolerate, nor accept, some of hers.

peace!
Clanclave

Posted by PumpkinsMomma

i am not often homesick, unless i'm gone for several days at a time, and i'm rarely not, and when I am gone i'm usually with y family so i'm not exactly homesick, since i'm not alone.

sorry i can't help you out!
marie