A Place to Land {Book Review}

A Place to Land {Book Review}

Where do you live? 

When we announced we would be moving to Honduras, it began to hit my husband and I: this is real! We are really moving our family to another place. The other day we were driving around town, and Jason mentioned how he is finally familiar enough with our city to feel at home. He has lived here for over fifteen years.

I’ve always lived in this area, so saying we will be leaving feels so sad. It is exciting and amazing to know God is leading us to Honduras, but there will always be a piece of me here in the hills of West Virginia. It is home for me, no matter where I go.

When I first began reading Kate’s book, A Place to Land, I totally related to her pull to move to South Africa but also the pain of saying goodbye. I’m going to be walking that road very, very soon. Through her story I saw my own. Although I haven’t lost my mom to cancer, or moved yet, I too have felt like I didn’t belong.

Kate’s story of longing and belonging will rip open your heart and fill it with beautiful truth from God’s Word. It isn’t a coincidence I had been studying Psalm 90 & 91 while I was reading her memoir. It says:

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.….He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. (Psalm 90:1-2; 91:1-2 KJV) 

My dwelling place is in the Lord. Reading Kate’s book felt like a fresh breath of air into my tired soul. Do you long for something, you can’t quite put your hand on? It might be home. And if you have every struggled with fitting in or finding your way, this book is for you. Written from an honest, friend-to-friend perspective, I read the book in just a few days. I didn’t want it to end.

 “But maybe this tension is how its supposed to be,” Kate writes. “Perhaps we’re supposed to squirm in discomfort and grown with longing fo the one place where moths and cancer ‘do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.'”

As our family prepares to uproot our lives (and the lives our family), we pray we will remember the truth: God is our dwelling place and the place of longing and belonging is found in Him.

Check out Kate’s book here.*

FROM KATE’S SITE:

A Place to Land is a globe-spanning memoir that wrestles with the question, ”Where is my home?” Kate Motaung watched ”home” slip away again and again–through her parents’ divorce, a foreclosure, two international moves, ten rental homes in ten years, and her mother’s terminal battle with cancer.

Add in the challenge of a cross-cultural marriage, and Kate was constantly adapting to a new environment. Through her experiences, you’ll realize–as she did–that no matter where we go or what we do, this world is not our home.

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