Stained Glass Home

"Their whole lives will be spent taking pieces of many different places and putting them together into a stained glass home." -Pico Iyer

I love that description! I'm not a person who claims a specific location or house as my home. In my life, there is no one place that encompasses the entire definition of home. I look at other people's lives and wonder how home turned into one place for them. They have a house, a family, a town, a role to fill, a place where they belong. I finally realized my life, my story, doesn't look like theirs, and that's okay. My home is all over the place. It is Missouri where I was born and raised; it is in Tennessee where I was greeted with open arms and easy acceptance; it is in Montana where I fell in love with the endless sky, the mountains, and the sense of freedom that comes from living in the wilderness; it is in Florida where I spent summers splashing in the sea; it is in Romania where 29 children will aways have my heart, even after they are grown and the memories have faded. Other places and people will be added throughout the years, if the Lord sees fit to grant me a long life.