Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from October, 2017

A Harvey Refugee Story - Creating a Home Where You Can

You become untethered from the routines, the comfortable spaces and the people who make your life feel normal When Harvey came to Houston, overnight people lost their homes, their cars, their belongings, but more than that, the floods took their sense of security and displaced their communities. Overnight people became untethered from the routines, the comfortable spaces and the people who made their lives feel normal.   I talked about our Harvey experience at my church in this video .  Stories From Harvey: Nancy Wilson from City Church Houston on Vimeo . Before I came up to speak, singer/songwriter Sandra McCraken sang her song "Refugee."  The chorus "Welcome home, gather round. All you refugees come in." It is a reference to coming home spiritually, eternally, but it speaks to what all of those who are displaced long for - the comforts and sense of belonging that you get from coming home. We wander, like refugees, till we can get back hom