zacharyjohnson - No Place I'd Rather Be

“There’s no place I would rather be than here in your love.”

One of my favorite songs is "Set a Fire" by Will Reagan. I didn't know many songs like this at the time I first heard it, so this one was nice because he said the same things over and over, making it easy to learn. Of all five lines, my favorite was "there's no place I'd rather be than here in your love," which is ironic because I'm almost always thinking about places where I'd rather be. Right now, I'd rather be in Nicaragua feeding people on the streets and building houses for the homeless than sitting in my room writing this blog.

Preparing for this awesome journey has taught me a little bit about embracing where I am rather than wishing for where I'm not. It's a skill I'll have to master pretty quickly when I'm living in less-than-desirable circumstances next year.

Sometimes we’re in a place that we don’t want to be in because there’s a place where we’d rather be. A lot of times that place is work, school, church or even home. Nevertheless, that place we'd rather be is often times not a place at all but a state of being. Sometimes I wish I was on a mountain camping with some friends, or on a crazy cross-country adventure. Other times I find myself wishing I was further along in my journey with Christ or wishing I was far enough in life to have my own house and my own family.

After singing this song over and over for nearly 3 years, it finally hit me: “here in your love” actually means "everywhere." Singing this song around a campfire surrounded by your people in a beautiful place is easy. Singing this song on a mountain top in North Georgia is easy. Singing this song after getting a raise on your paycheck is easy. Can you sing it when you’re surrounded by walls and loneliness? When you’re sitting in front of a pile of papers and stress? There’s always a place where you could be, but will you embrace the place where you are? This is where you’re meant to be.

This question was posed to me in early 2018:

If you could be anywhere in life right now, where would you be? (time, age, spiritual journey, mental growth, etc.) why?