i just stumbled across your series on this blog through a friend’s reference on facebook and am so thankful for your postings. i myself have been on a journey since january to find a church i can call my spiritual home and have been feeling rather alone and frustrated at the whole process and helplessly so. it’s frustrating when you know that things like this take time but you just can’t help but be impatient about it. thus i find your words of encouragement and challenge in the last few parts of the series deeply refreshing, both in knowing that i’m not alone and in the reminder of the bigger picture of what God is trying to do in me, and in us as a larger body that is to be the expression of who he is in the world.