TCK: A Glimpse Into Their Journey, 변화를 겪는 선교사 자녀들의 마음을 헤아린다

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When I asked her why we were selling it she told me we were moving. That was the first of the many things that kept on disappearing…. I knew that even though my home was left behind me, I knew my real home would never be behind me. (Junia French)

I thought that would stay my home forever. But one day, my parents told me and my brother that we were leaving. They told us that we’d be one for quite a while. That shock ripped me apart, and left a wound in my heart that I had to live with for a long time. When we left, I flet like half of me had been ripped away, and that’s when I stopped moving on… We moved to Canada. They found me and my brother a school we could go to. The school was very different from what I’ve lived with all my life. People there cursed God, and the first thought I had was, “This year is going to be a nightmare.” Everyday when I came home after school, I would lock myself in my room and cry. Sometimes I would cry for so long that my eyes would sell up. I never let my family see me cry though…. I thought God had left me. And I realized I was lost: lost in a cloud of confusion, depression, and in a complete haze. At that point, all alone, scared and nervous, I laid everything down, and said, “Lord, I give my life to you, and repent… Forgive me.” That was about a year ago, when I became a Christian…. Now, every time I’m going through a hard situation or struggle, I try to remember that it’s all part of a bigger plan that we just can’t see… yet. (Sarah Knauber)

We attributed a lot her moodiness to “adolescence.” I never thought that this transition would impact her so greatly. All of us tried to talk to her about it to find out what was really going on, but we were getting no-where. The message Sarah kept giving us was, “Just leave me alone!” Only later we learned that she had been almost suicidal. Sarah’s testimony is very powerful, especially because we saw a dramatic change in her right after she had given her life to the Lord. (Beate Kknauber)

I am grateful for the chances God has given to me through our many moves… “Home is where your heart is.” I choose to make wherever I am at that particular time my hoe, whether it feels like it or not. It eventually becomes a little quilt piece in the big, beautiful masterpiece that is the rich life that God has given me. Ps. 68:6a says, “God makes a home for the lonely…” Any time that I am lonely, I know that God cares for His children and there is always a home that I can run to when I am lonely. (Cheryl Kline)

Fortunately, I have grown in re-learning how to build a relationship and trust in it, and am more grateful that I had the chance to live in so many places rather than be bitter about my losses. Though I am often stabbed by nostalgia, I treasure all the times I have spent with everyone I’ve met.