Strangers in a Strange Land

Posted on February 28, 2021 by mitchteemley

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Have you ever felt a sense of incompleteness, a longing for something beyond your earthly reach? ~The Wishing Map

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” ~C.S. Lewis

“Moses called his son Gershom (“foreigner”) for he said, ‘I have been a stranger in a strange land.'”

~Exodus 2:22

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Writer, Filmmaker, Humorist, Thinker-about-stuffer
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14 Responses to Strangers in a Strange Land

  1. Kamina A. Fitzgerald Ed.D. says:
    February 28, 2021 at 11:46 am

    What a great post, it caused me to really reflect.

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  2. kentuckyangel24 says:
    February 28, 2021 at 1:29 pm

    I have been thinking about all the times I’ve wondered if I was born a few centuries too late. Great post.

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  3. Rosaliene Bacchus says:
    February 28, 2021 at 2:21 pm

    It’s great to know that I’m not the only one 🙂

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  4. artsandletters9 says:
    February 28, 2021 at 4:48 pm

    I do reflect on these issues. I think the best we can fathom now is that there is a dimension wherein lies the Heavenly Kingdom. The Trinity is close. The Holy Spirit resides within us. I believe there are moments we can almost taste Heaven. They are glimpses of that sacred place just beyond our grasp in that thin line between our fragile lives and death. I do think there is a paradise where we reside without a physical self and our bodies will be resurrected at the end times as we live eternally where the New Heavens meet the New Earth. Oh Jerusalem!

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  5. Veena Hegde Bhat says:
    March 1, 2021 at 11:34 am

    Most probably we Hindus call it as “Moksha” the topic discussed in the post.

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  8. revruss1220 says:
    March 2, 2021 at 11:17 am

    Great, thought-provoking post again, Mitch. It leads me to reflect on all the distorted ways we humans have sought to satisfy that longing… most of which only lead to deeper alienation and greater longing still.

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  9. Hetty Eliot says:
    March 2, 2021 at 7:45 pm

    I remember reading Pilgrim’s Progress back in the day. We’re all on a pilgrimage here, in a way.

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  10. sakshisoni says:
    March 10, 2021 at 2:57 am

    Such a great post!😃

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