"If you came back, you wanted to leave again. If you went away, you longed to come back. Wherever you were, you could hear the call of the herdsman's horn far away in the hills. You had one home out there and one over here and yet you were an alien in both places. Your true abiding place was the vision of something very far off, and your soul, like the waves, always restless and forever in motion"
Johan Bojer from The Immigrants.
It is often difficult to describe what it is like being a missionary, or even living in a foreign country. This quote is a fabulous glimpse.
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