Adventure Number One...IRELAND !

So, I figured there was no time but the present to start a new blog as I feel that today marks the first day of a lot of new beginnings ! I'm sitting here in Toronto airport waiting for my plane to start boarding. My location? Kiltimagh, Ireland. As I look around me I imagine people's stories, where they are from, why they are flying to Ireland. (I'm surprised at the fact that I can only see 3 redheads!) I wonder how many people just spontaneously booked a ticket to get away from their current going ons, to clear their head and to see people they haven't seen in years, much like me. I wonder if the older couples here came to do what my grandparents do every four months and visit their children and grandchildren. Some people are just too hard to read, I can't even imagine why they are about to get on this plane with me. Everybody has such a deep story, so many things that not even their closest friends and family know. It would be impossible to even imagine what kind of person they are, if they are joyful or miserable or if this is a trip of leisure or business...a wedding or a funeral...honeymooners or girls like me who just want the comfort of their nana! I think this trip will be a wonderful trip. I'm really excited to see what healing God does through it. Five whole years I have been away...how much will have changed? how does everyone look? I'm reading a book right now called "Lost and Found" by Carolyn Parkhurst and although it's a novel, the title of it is so relevant. So many things have happened recently that have made me feel lost, alone, even if I am surrounded by so many people. I have been performing mundane, daily tasks with no drive, no inspiration and no desire to change that. I know that this trip will be a huge factor in making me feel "found" again. To see the family I barely see but love more than anyone in the world, to see the friends who although thousands of miles apart understand exactly what I'm going through, to hear the words that only these people could get away with saying, hopefully, all these things together will help me to feel like me again. Home. And found.