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December 2011
Unknown…or am I?
More from Johanna’s moving story…
(Click here for Johanna’s blog that was featured on our website in September 2011)
I love it here, but some days I feel very alone. I’ve cried on 3 out of a total of 8 Sundays that we’ve been here because those are the days that seem to remind me the most that this doesn’t always feel like “home” yet. I long for the beginning of just one dear friendship with a woman here, and sometimes let my fear that there won’t be one person who needs or desires a friendship as much as I do get the best of me. I rationally know that this kind of friendship takes time, and it took time before, but I also know the blessing of true, deep friendship with other women and it makes me miss it all the more not having it here yet. Maybe, if I’m honest, it’s not the “beginning” of that friendship that I long for…because in truth, maybe the beginning of the friendship I’m speaking of has already, well, begun. 
If I’m really honest, what I long for is that already established friendship. The one where your past is known and accepted, your dreams for the future are shared and supported. After being in one place for a number of years it’s almost overwhelming to think of where to begin in friendships. I’m so used to being around people who know everything about me and there’s no need for explaining when you’re known so well, you’re just understood. My impatience in this area definitely tells me I was maybe too comfortable where I was…too comfortable to notice someone who might be in the place where I am today…
…I am reminded anew of how God cares for me and knows me perfectly, the God of the universe has inscribed me on the palms of His hands! (Isaiah 49:16) How could I for too long wallow in the despair of being unknown when I belong to Him? He is a faithful and true friend and has Himself longed for me to recognize Him as such.
“Therefore the Lord longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; how blessed are all those who long for Him.” (Isaiah 30:18)
…May my longing be to first seek the One who longs for me…
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