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I am back in Norcross for the summer. In the last two years, I've spent a total of three months here, non-consecutively, and, with the exception of winter breaks, only for a few weeks here as I get ready to move on to somewhere else. Now I'm back for the whole summer, one large chunk equal to the whole amount of time I've spent here since high school. I'm here because God told me it was time to come back, to finally begin to focus my energy closer to home. Originally I thought it was because I need a rest, because I feel like I've been running from one place to another for the last two years, and to reconnect with the family and friends I left so immediately after graduation and have hardly had time for since. That is certainly part of it, but today I realized that God has much more in store for me here than that. This summer is going to be about learning to be patient and loving with my family, about learning how to serve them the way I've spent my last two summers serving campers and homeowners, and it's going to be hard. So hard. But it is a lesson I need to learn. How can I spend my life loving and serving others without ever learning to properly (or at least as properly as any of us can) love on my own family? God is going to grow and stretch me very much this summer, and I can already tell that it's going to be very uncomfortable, but it's also going to be very good.

Praise to the God who sees our weaknesses and helps us grow past them. That is love.