Longings

So I woke up this morning longing to go on a mission trip. Weird, I know, since I spent one of yesterday's posts talking about how I've moved around too much this summer and I just want to be settled. But there it is - I want to go on a mission trip. I feel like I need to. Now the only question is when, and to where. I know it can't be until after the election (my bosses would resort to physical violence if I asked for a week off this close to Election Day), but maybe sometime this winter. How amazing would that be? I know I can help people where I am, but I just feel like I need to go somewhere.

Also, as I've been feeling on and off since January of 2011, I really feel like I need to get back to Ireland. I miss it soul-deep - I felt like I belonged there, I felt at home. And the fact that the weather suited me perfectly (gloomy and rainy all the time!!!) is just icing on the cake! Gosh I miss that place. I want to work in their government, or at least for our government at the embassy. I want to walk around in the rain on the streets of Belfast and Dublin, I want to drink Smithwick's where it was meant to be drunk, I want to go back to Lavery's and I want to spend ALL my free time touring castles.

Anywho, those are my longings, the things I feel like I NEED to do or I'll never feel settled. I'll pray about them and we'll see what comes from it.