home is more than just a place...

hello there! it is summertime, and I am currently taking an online course, just one, which (hopefully) means I can get better at a nice blog post routine and post more consistently.

today i wanted to touch on the topic of home.

mother's day weekend, i said goodbye to the house i rented sophomore year and moved back home for 2 weeks. yesterday, may 24, with the help of my family, we moved myself into my new home for the upcoming year. why am i saying all of this? because the truth is, each of these places i live, i get to call home...and although those goodbyes are bittersweet, i think my favorite realization is the fact that these people i get to live with, they become my home.

see, a home is a building, and it is in that building that we create that sense of home with the people residing there. it reminds me of a church. a church is a building, but when you are in that building, community is created and relationships begin to develop.

i'm not one that is all that good at goodbyes, and change, it freaks me out a bit. to be honest, i think that is a little true for all of us, but it is so necessary for growth. i think that is such an important reminder: CHANGE IS NECESSARY! yeah it might be super hard, frustrating, difficult, uncomfortable, but it is until you get uncomfortable that you will begin to see growth.

i remember when my mom moved me into my dorm room my freshman year of college, we had to say our goodbyes and holding it together until she got in her car and drove away, i cried. a piece of my heart just felt missing. why? because i did not know when i planned on going home for a weekend. i knew i planned on staying at least a month or two until i would go home. i had not been away from home for more than 2 weeks at most, and the place and the people i called home the last 18 years of my life, was suddenly not going to be home for the next year. and i know, i know, i will always call the place i grew up home, i will never not, but everything was so new and it is honestly a huge change, going to college and all.

sitting in this cute new house at 9:30 am on may 25, 2020, i just smile because i have a lot of sweet places i got to call home...