Hiraeth. It's a Welsh word and it's hard to translate well, but it describes our longing for belonging. For years, before I'd given my life to Papa, I had a deep sense of not belonging. Like I had been dropped off on the wrong planet. This world has never felt like my home. My home was somewhere else. So I've always felt like an outsider, like there was something wrong with me. It cultivated a suicidal life(-style) with deep depressions and addictions. Addictions to escape these feelings. No matter how successful I was, I felt empty, small and insignificant. Estranged from the world and its people. In my encounter with God, some 4.5 years ago, I was freed from depression and I experienced a peace that transcends all understanding. For the first time in my life I truly felt like I belonged. And the months and years after that God showed me what it means to be a part of an unseen Kingdom but one that is very tangible nevertheless. And Jerem
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