I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing…to find the place where all the beauty comes from.”

-C.S. Lewis

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This is my favorite longing quote. I used the fuller version five years ago in Gems 4.98.

As we head into the weekend, I hope we all find the beauty we’ve longed for. I’d love to hear about one of the longings of your heart.

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Home
A place where I can go
To take this off my shoulders
Someone take me home
Home
A place where I can go
To take this off my shoulders
Someone take me home, someone take me

Look, I didn’t power through the struggle
Just to let a little trouble, knock me out of my position
And interrupt the vision
After everything I witnessed, after all of these decisions
All these miles, feets, inches
They can’t add up to the distance
That I have been through, just to get to
A place where even if there’s no closure, I’m still safe
I still ache from trying to keep pace
Somebody give me a sign, I’m starting to lose faith

Now tell me: how did all my dreams turn to nightmares?
How did I lose it when I was right there?
Now I’m so far that it feels like it’s all gone to pieces
Tell me why the world never fights fair?
I’m trying to find

Home
A place where I can go
To take this off my shoulders
Someone take me home
Home
A place where I can go
To take this off my shoulders
Someone take me home(It’s been a long time coming)
Someone take me
Hooooome, ho-o-o-o-me
Hooome, hooome
Someone take me
Hooooome, ho-o-o-o-me
Hoooome, hooome

Look, I been through so much pain
And it’s hard to maintain, any smile on my face
‘Cause there’s madness on my brain
So I gotta make it back, but my home ain’t on the map
Gotta follow what I’m feeling to discover where it’s at
I need the (memory)
In case this fate is forever
Just to be sure these last days are better
And if I have any (enemies)
To give me the strength to look the
Devil in the face and make it home safe

Now tell me: how did all my dreams turn to nightmares?
How did I lose it when I was right there?
Now I’m so far that it feels like it’s all gone to pieces
Tell me why the world never fights fair?
I’m trying to find

Home
A place where I can go
To take this off my shoulders
Someone take me home
Someone take me

I found no cure for the loneliness
I found no cure for the sickness
Nothing here feels like home
Crowded streets, but I’m all alone
I found no cure for the loneliness
I found no cure for the sickness
Nothing here feels like home
Crowded streets, but I’m all alone

Someone take me
Hoooome, ho-o-o-o-me
Take me home
Hoooome, hooome (take me home)
Someone take me
Hoooome, ho-o-o-o-me (someone, someone)

Nothing here feels like home(Hoooome, hooome)
(Take me home)
Someone take me

Machine Gun Kelly, X Ambassadors, Bebe Rexha

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Longing

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A friend and I were talking about this kind of grief [longing], and this came to my heart when I wrote to her:

We are meant to find our home in each other right now. We are the constants through eternity; our souls are forever united. Forever. We will always find each other. We will always be home together.

Saudade. Hiraeth.

Each other. Always.

♥ n.f.