Sense of Place
The church I grew up in merged with another congregation back in 2002; the new congregation is going to have to move to another facility. They called a minister back in 2004, but the one they called wasn't the best person for that job. He didn't handle conflict well, and as a result some problems with overbearing people became a real problem for
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Where ever I travel and wander around this country and around the world, I know I want to return to granite, and to the jarrah trees and marri trees in the south west of Western Australia. I love the smell of the bush and I know a lot of the birds and plants. I grew up in this country, although closer to the city than I live now, and I've always craved it when I'm away. I'll always return to this. I feel as if I belong here.
So it's landscape that I feel I belong in, but of course the people I love are here too. I don't know how I'd feel if my loved ones were all in a different landscape from this. Maybe I'd find it was the people after all who drew me and maybe I'd move to be near them.
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