This is home...Or well one of them anyways.

"I've got my memories
They're always
Inside of me
But I can't go back
Back to how it was
I believe now
I've seen too much
But I can't go back
Back to how it was
Created for a place
I've never known

This is home
Now I'm finally
Where I belong
Yeah, this is home
I've been searching
For a place of my own
Now I've found it
Maybe this is home"

So I just got back from being in Charlotte over thanksgiving and I've gotta say it was so nice being home. Maybe it was because i wasn't home for very long, but it didn't feel like it used to. I guess thats what happens when you go away to college. Its funny what being away from home and friends for almost 4 months can do. I feel like I'm this completely different person now when I come home. I know I'm not, but sometimes it feels like I'm remembering someone else's memories. Since coming to college I feel so at home in my dorm room and I am so used to being around people all the time. It was an adjustment going home and having time when I am all by myself. It feels like I now have two homes instead of one. I have my home that is wherever my family is. Whether that's in Charlotte or anywhere else. Then i have my home at school. Not just my dorm room, but my friends, my friends that have become my family here at school.

Seeing home in a new and different way also makes me realize that just like how I don't feel 100% at home at school or in charlotte anymore, thats how we should see our life here on earth. This will never feel fully like home, and it shouldn't. We are only here for as long as God says we are. This is only temporary, and we should live our lives that way. We are created for something so much more than what this world can offer us. We are created for something we can't even recognize yet. There's a quote by C.S. Lewis that I love so much. He says, "If we find in ourselves a desire which nothing in this world can satisfy, maybe the most probably explanation is that we were made for another world." Whenever I see this, it just reminds me to set my eyes on more than what I'm offered right now. To look past the temporary and set my gaze on eternity.