hometown homesick blues

it's around this time of year that i just start to miss home, just a tad. not a lot, mind you. it's really the little things--like my family. and winter--though it feels like winter here, there's nothing like the cold and crisp end of a north carolina fall, especially with the ever-looming possibility of snow. i miss the excitement of the last football games and the beginning of college basketball. i miss seeing the lights being strung across main street in downtown forest city, the big sears christmas wish book we always get in mid-november, and my mom buying us advent calenders, the front door being all frosted over from the cold air and my mom getting really annoyed when i'd draw on it when i was younger. frozen mud puddles. somer sausage for the holidays. however, something is different this year--and that difference is that i know, know, know that God is doing a new and great thing. and this new thing--while i don't know exactly what it is, i know it's going to take me far from home. and that's okay. sometimes the journey itself is the destination--you learn as much from the road you take, or more even, as the place you end up. i don't know if this makes sense or not. anyways, i'm nervous and scared out of my mind...but i know God has a plan and a purpose and a path. and so i'm just gonna try to follow it.