I have to believe many of the American immigrants had more than one notion to turn around and head back for home where everything is comfortable and familiar. Of course, I too have felt these feelings. How long does it take to feel like your life is “normal” in these circumstances? When do you get to a point where you feel as if you belong? One thing I know for sure is it doesn’t happen in 17 months. A legitimate question to ask is can a person ever feel truly at home in a situation like this?
The reality for me is that as I seek a deeper, more hidden relationship with Christ, I experience the feeling of being a foreigner, not only here in Sk but on the entire planet in general. If its true that we are all just passing through this planet on our way back home then all the seasons of change in this life have only one purpose: to prepare us for our real home.


On this particular day we were celebrating Ludka's (Mrs. Pospisil) birthday and nameday. The Slovaks have a tradition of celebrating "nameday" as well as birthday's. Rarely do those events fall on the same day. A nameday is simply when your name appears on a certain day on the calander. All the calanders here have printed on them the most common names used, usually biblical names such as: Peter, Mateo, Jan, Pavel, Maria, Katarina, Zuzska(susan)and there is also Slavic names like Miroslav, Milan, Olga...