From Knoxville

We haven't had our vacation yet (it will be next weekend), but Francesca and I would like to write few lines about how we are longing forward to it...

Dearest Enrico,

We haven't had our vacation yet (it will be next weekend), but Francesca and I would like to write few lines about how we are longing forward to it. Below is the contribution.

We are a young married couple who moved from Italy to the U.S. one year ago right after getting married. We are also expecting our first child. The occasion of the upcoming vacation with our community of the Southeast is very important to us. We first met these friends in the movement last year during the same summer vacation, and since then those faces had become a strong rock in our just started adventure in marriage and in the world.

The distance between us and every single community or family here is significant and prevents us from meeting with any of them often. Although, whenever there is an opportunity to share life (a community day, a weekend on the lake, the vacation itself), we feel at home again. Our certainty about all the good that's in our life is strengthened every time a little bit more, even though we are "alone" and far from home (far from our families and all our friends). Those gazes, instead, remind us that we are not alone at all, but we are walking together with our friends and beloved, those close and those far away, toward the same place, toward Christ. And, even if we'll probably join the vacation one day later because of working commitments, this is why we are really longing forward to seeing those gazes again.

Francesca and Daniele