I'm an Alien

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I hope that as you are becoming aware of your alieness in a foreign land that God would show you new depths into the meaning of being "aliens in this Earth" having a home not found in this world.

A friend wrote this and many other notes in a journal she gave me before I came to Korea.  What is so interesting is that before I even left the States I felt like an alien.

I left the place I had called home for 7 years.  Even spending 2 months at my parents home, didn't feel like home anymore. And I have never felt more alien and out of place than I have in this homogeneous, South Korean land.    

I found and find myself where no Earthly place seems like home.  I could live in a place but still not find that place where my heart is completely at rest.  It must be true that the only place I will ever feel completely at home is in the full presence of God.

So God may take me places where I will live and settle for a time...but they will never be home. I'm an alien.

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