Living in Two Worlds

I haven’t written in this blog for more than two months. I have not been on a vacation, and I have not been sick or down and out. I guess you could say I have been changing! A lot has changed in two months.

I find myself in a divided world right now.

No, it is not the Red States, Blue States of the political world in America. It has nothing to do with the racial divide or the, have, and the have not’s, of the world. No, it is simply that I needed to make a move from Stockholm back to Jacksonville, from Sweden to America and from an exciting work helping to start a new missional church in a multicultural area tockholm to a strange new work of trying to do promote church planting movements in the Nordic Baltic countries of Europe while living in America.

Yes, I feel divided but I guess I will just have to feel that way awhile.

At present I own a house in Sweden that I hope to rent out and keep and I am renting a house in America that I am not interested in buying but I do need to live in awhile. I have old friends in Sweden in cafes, Pubs and my old neighborhood and I am slowly making new friends in America in Cafes, no pubs yet, and a new neighborhood.

My old friends in Sweden think I must be one of the lucky people in the world because I get to live close to the beach in a warm sunny Florida. My new friends in warm sunny Florida think it must have been exciting to have recently lived in old Europe experiencing a different culture and beautiful scenery. But right now I just feel divided. I love my place of birth (Florida) and at the same time I love the work and travel that I do to promote church planting in the Nordic Baltic countries of Europe.

Yes, I am feeling that I live in a divided world. I have just made a very quick and unexpected move from Europe to America, but as the fog of the last two months lifts and I can see a little clearer, I will see I’m sure that I have a great life. I have good friends on two continents. I have a family that loves me dearly and they are just great. I have a job I love. And maybe best of all, I trust in a Good God that has promised to never leave me or forsake me. I am divided, but at the same time united.