I miss you already.

Today was quite possibly the most unproductive day since...well, since a long time.
But it was a day that I needed.
I needed time to reflect. Time to digest and process the past week.
And that is exactly what I did.


I just returned from spending almost a week in Minnesota with four of my closest friends from my semester abroad in the Middle East.
And it was soo good.

There was a lot of driving, which meant a lot of great music.. as well as very sore butts.
We hiked, camped out, swam in Lake Superior, feasted on amazing "one pan wonders", reminisced about our semester together in the ME, laughed about things in the moment and things in the past, talked around the campfire into the late hours of the night...

It felt so good to be with these friends of mine. To share things on my heart that only they would understand because only they experienced that formative time with me. They were the ones with me when I began to see the world through a new lens. They were the ones that I dialogued with as I began to ask questions and as my faith structure came crumbling down around me.
They were the ones with me as I fell in love with a people, a country, a region.
They understand my desire, my need, to go. Get up and go.

There is a piece of me that I feel like no one but the people I lived with in Egypt will ever really know.

It felt so right to be together again. But now that we have said our goodbyes, it just feels lonely.

(pictures taken by Jordan Clark)