Ever felt homesick for a place you've never been?

Dear friend.

Have you ever caught yourself missing something you’ve never actually had? A quiet evening in a cottage you’ve never visited. The laughter of a family gathering that never happened. That strange pull when an old song comes on and you find yourself almost in tears, and you couldn’t even tell anyone why.

It’s an odd feeling, isn’t it? Like homesickness for somewhere you’ve never been.

If that’s you today, if there’s a quiet ache sitting underneath the school run and the inbox and the washing pile, I want you to know three gentle things. You are not broken. You are not alone. And there is a very real reason you feel it.

Hidden in Ecclesiastes 3, almost in the small print, there’s a line most people skip clean over. “God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart.” Eternity. Planted in you. Planted in your colleague, your neighbour, the friend who messages you at half past eleven. An eternity-shaped space that nothing in this world is quite the right size to fill.

Augustine wrote about it 1,700 years ago. “Our heart is restless until it rests in you.” The ache isn’t a fault, friend. It’s a feature. It’s the evidence.

In today’s 5-minute devotional, we sit with this quietly together, and I share one small, gentle step to take today. I’d love you to join me.

👉

Take it gently today. You are loved more than you know.

Rob

Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/you-are-not-alone?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true