nomad /ˈnōˌmad/
Noun: A member of a people who have no permanent abode and travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.
Okay, a nomad may be an exaggeration for a twenty year-old who just graduated college. There are several people in the world who by definition, are nomads. I am not one. But to give myself some validation, I work in two cities and live in another...each about a 20 minute drive, if I time the traffic right.
Where I live, is not my home. I rent out my friends room while she's out of the country. They're practically family, so it is homy. But it's not home. My parent's home has boxes in the garage, a room with scattered remnants of my 18 years living there, and my bank statements fill the mailbox every two weeks. In one sense, I am without a home.
Jon Foreman sings it well, "I'm heading home, but I'm not so sure that home is a place you can still get to by train". I am not an extensive traveler, I am not in an unstable living situation, I am not walking by foot from place to place; but I am certain that no matter where I go I will be unsatisfied in finding home if I am without Christ.
Home must be something greater than a stable structure, a warm comfort, or even those we surround ourselves with. Of course I favor all of those things, "for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength." [Philippians 4:11-13]
Living at home is living, relying, abiding, rejoicing in Christ.
Here, are my stories told and captured moments of my first nomadic year after graduating college.
