Community

Community is crucial to life. We were meant to live in it. We need it.

Well, anytime you move to a new city, you have to make all new friends. Once in awhile you get lucky and hit it off with someone right away, but other times it's a very long, lonely transition. China is somewhere in between those two options.

I've met people on the team I really get along with and enjoy. There are some I feel I've known forever, However, I don't feel really connected. I know friendships take time and sometimes it's hard to go deep, especially when life is so chaotic, but it's hard while in the midst of the process.

Honestly, it doesn't help that I left behind amazing community. People I loved with my whole heart. People I think about often, keep in touch with, and people who knew me (the good and the bad).

I just feel a bit out of place. I know I am called to be here for this season of life and I love it here, I'm just waiting on the community aspect. People who get me: who let me be who I am, that I don't have to think about what I say or do near them because they fully accept me as I am knowing I'm in the process of being healed and matured, that will look at me and bust out laughing because we know what we are both thinking, who are fun and full of life. I just miss having deep and hilarious friendships. I know things take time, but can I just transport my entire community (or at least part of it) here to make the transition a bit easier?

Oh time, where are you when I need you? And why are you slow when I want you to speed up.

Praying for friendships and people that I truly connect with. No more surface conversations or feeling awkward because there isn't anything to talk about. Depth, life, and laughter.