about roots, anthems and so on.....
In our school this morning we started our studies on Russia and as a result looked up the Russian Anthem. I nearly burst into tears when i heard it!! It was really beautiful and strong and sung with such emotion - a song about their country, the plains, the forests, the mountains....really beautiful and touching!
And i know that this earth is not our real home, but for a moment i felt so sad, because sometimes with this Job comes huge sacrifices that you don't even consider or know about actually until it's way too late.....
Take belonging and keeping on belonging, for example!! A National Anthem in our house does not exisit (true, taken into considiration that our passpart country has had it's fair share of troubles and change-overs which hasn't helped!), but i think if you still lived in your (changed) country you will have times when you feel you still belong, you will feel kinship! Unity! Etc! :) We don't have those times!
We will always be outsiders here but at the same time we are also loosing touch with home base - and yes, sometimes it is at the fault of Home Base that we do loose touch and sometimes the fault lies at our own rootless feet. Our world is just so different and the things we experience so foreign (no pun intended!) that people do not understand and so we keep quiet....and share that which would be understood.....and in doing so we slowly loosen our roots and our ways and become a changed people.
But on the positive side - i actually am more like a Narnian tree who has been waiting to Wake Up and now finally has - with loose roots, but still a tree and able to Walk!! How great is that? We might not have an anthem to sing with gusto, but we have a Home waiting for us and it will be Grand!! I can't wait to sing Praises and Anthems of Worship to my only true King!
bella, the walking tree....
Oh, Bella, my heart goes out to you as you process your emotions related to "sometimes with this Job comes huge sacrifices that you don't even consider or know about actually until it's way too late....." May God somehow, over time, shower you with blessings in return for those sacrifices. I suspect you are in for many blessings that most of the rest of us will never experience -- all because of your faithful, selfless service. God bless you!
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