Tag: TCKs for Christ
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Chameleon in a Crowd:
I don’t think I am afraid of being lonely I take that back I am afraid of being alone I know how to be on my own And yet there are moments in life…
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Encouragement
“We all need help,” I tell my friend. “When was the last time You asked God For encouragement?” As soon as I speak the words, A pain sears…
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I Just Want An Embrace
I just want an embrace Just want to fall back on Someone Feel Your strength ’cause mine is gone…
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On Saying Goodbye Before It’s Time: When I Find Myself Closing Off
“I was thinking,” my friend started, leaning against the kitchen counter. “Yes?” I said and took another sip of water before nodding encouragingly. “I could leave a few months earlier than I had been planning…”
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TCK Voices: Life Feels Like a Series of Goodbyes
I know that life always seems to go up and down, especially for TCKs. There’s always a change: a new person, another move, a scary experience…
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Working Through the “What Ifs”
I took a deep breath to steady my nerves, but I was so anxious I felt sick. I knelt on the cool tile floor of the school bathroom and prayed, “Lord, I don’t know if I can do this…
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When You Primarily Expect Hardships From the Hand of God
I never got to properly grieve my home, which I thought would be permanent. I never got to go through a repatriation program, because for two years we thought we would return. And through it all, I questioned God’s reasoning for…
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TCK Voices: Unstacking Grief and Celebrating Different Cultures
I was born in Singapore, spent the majority of my childhood in England and Turkey, and then went to boarding school in Germany. When I’m asked the dreaded “Which country did you like the most?” I answer that I…
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heartache
it hurts to love a person a friend that i only spent a week of my life with it hurts to go through cherished pictures and think “i’ll never see her again”
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Scars Last
A friend showed me his skateboard the other day He said every mark it bears tells a story. Each story carries meaning, emotion, life significance— It reminded me of scars.
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