When no place feels quite like home

thoughts on finding sanctuary beyond church walls

“What if beauty dwells in the margins of our undoing and remaking?”

— Terry Tempest Williams, Erosion

When my husband was suddenly deployed a few weeks ago, I felt a particular sense of dread I didn’t know how to name. It wasn’t from a fear of being separated from him (we live the sort of life where separation is common). But I now understand that my bod…