A Little Piece of Home

Being a TCK always has its advantages or disadvantages, depending on how you look at it. In my case it was a little of both. Growing up in South Korea and having a gone to an International school allowed me to have a wide network of friends from all over the world. I got to learn different kinds of cultures from a young age. Having friends with different accents from different countries was pretty normal to me. It allowed me to open my eyes to different cultures God made at an early age. I didn't feel any different from any of them because we all seemed like we were going through the same things. And plus having childlike innocence totally helped in that area ;) Like I said when there are advantages, disadvantage is lurking around the corner. If you haven't realized already being a TCK meant you had to move around. It wasn't the easiest thing in the world, but I guess you get used to it over time. I can tell you this much, there is no such thing as goodbyes, cuz even though you might say it now in the technical sense you never know what God has planned up the road on your journey. That's exactly what happened to me this week! As I remembered crying my little eyes out that day in AWANA, a day before I had to fly off to another country, I had to say "goodbye" to many friends including my little best friend Levi Miller. Although he was 4 years old at the time, he was a great pal who always apparently made me laugh. Thinking I would never see them I let them go. I knew in my heart it wasn't possible, but God had other plans. Last summer on some random occasion as I looked through facebook I found Levi's older brother Luke. I never actually talked to him growing up cuz he was a little too intimidating, at least from my point of view anyways. But for some reason we began talking and a year later we find out they are coming to Egypt! Anyways long story short they came here at the perfect time! I was slightly getting kinda homesick at the same time getting pretty worn out with having to say "goodbye" to my friends here. So having a little piece of home for a day and a half was totally awesome! Memories from the past were brought up; we looked at pictures of us as kids. Too bad Levi didn't remember us being best friends till he saw a picture of me. They were pretty random (they are guys what do you expect.) which is one thing I totally didn't expect. But at some point Levi did make me laugh really hard, I guess some things will never change. I was so glad to see them! And it was like God saying "If you are in the same family, there are no goodbyes. For one day you will all be living together." It was an assuring feeling knowing that I don't have a permanent home or that I'll eventually see people one day in Heaven. So even if I say "goodbye" and God takes me on another adventure somewhere else in the world asking me to do something totally out of my comfort zone, I can be confident in the fact that I'll see ya'll again; here on earth or our Heavenly Home. :)