Wanderlust?

Wanderlust is a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world. (Oxford Dictionaries Online). 

Nomad- a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.

Bear with me on this, many thoughts are rolling through my head and the thoughts will probably come out choppy on the screen, but try to hang with me.

So I am not a nomad.  I have a “permanent abode” and I don’t have “livestock” that need “fresh pasture.”   I like my “permanent abode” and spending time at home, but I do have a desire to “travel from place to place.”  Which therefore I think means I have wanderlust, but does it fit if I am not impulsive?  But I think the word “or” is my saving grace, “a strong desire for or impulse”.  I may not be impulsive but I do have a strong desire “to wander or travel and explore the world.”

I always really loved the idea of traveling.  There are very few places, or times that I want to travel to the same place repeatedly,  not that I don’t love a place, it just that life is short and there are so many places I want to see.  When traveling especially, it is nature and culture that I want to see.  Culture is generally gathered from the people, and you find the largest amount of people in the cities, but that is not me, not where I want to spend my time.  I want to go out to the small rural towns and mosey around and just observe the slower life that happens in the country side.  Ireland was perfect for this; you can read about this article below.  And nature, that is a God thing.  Romans 1:20!  He made all of that and I want to see as much as it as I can.

In Ireland I really noticed how much a place can attach itself to your heart. A friend of mine uses the term “kindred spirit” and you hear of “soul mates”, but can a location be something of sorts?

Kindred Spirit – a person whose interests or attitudes are similar to one’s own.

Soul Mate- a person ideally suited to another as a close friend or romantic partner.

I mean soul mate, so I am not crazy, I know that a place cannot be “a close friend or romantic partner” but it could be ideally suited to you?  I don’t know though, I have been to some pretty great place which left an imprint on me, but I don’t think they were “ideally suited” to me, I have always returned home without a crazy desire to make that place my home.  Is there a place like that?  It might sound disappointing, but it isn’t, but no I do not believe that there is a place “ideally suited”  for me, or you, in this life.  Philippians 3:20 states “But our citizenship is in heaven.  And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesse Christ.”

Maybe that is why Wanderlust is so real.  We travel from place to place to see more and more.  And by seeing we are actually experiencing more and more of God’s character and divine nature through His creation.  Maybe, I don’t know, but maybe we are getting tiny glimpse of Heaven or God.  “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” Romans 1:20  So we desire to see more of the world and more of creation and get to know God better.

I really had no intension of taking this into creation and Christianity from travel, but wow it really does speak to that.  I hope you got something out of this and I know the thoughts are not clearly laid out, but I really feel like my thoughts made it somewhere.  Thanks for reading!