Coming home from a mission trip is overwhelming yet soothing. You come home to your family, friends, and of course your fur babies. Then you start to think about the trip you just took. But, there is that time that your mind is racing about all the things you have seen.

You first start to think about how fast the time went. You think that literally you just got there and shouldn’t be back home already. Then you start thinking about the relationships that you made. You think about the kids that you spend hours playing volleyball or soccer with. You think about the mothers and fathers you talked to about how smart and wonderful their child is. You think about how you would go back to just coloring with these children over doing homework. You think about how much you take for granted in your everyday life when some of these people you were serving have never seen clear drinking water. You think about how some of the people in the place you were serving at changed your life instead of them changing your life. You sit and ponder on how God has blessed your life to no end.

Then you sit down and start looking at all the pictures that you took. Sometimes you notice things in the pictures that you didn’t catch the first time you looked at them. You started to reminisce on how great the kids were and how much you love them. You start to wonder how a little six year olds can make such a big impact in your life.

You then start to wonder on how to you can keep in touch with mission work. You start looking for things to do in your own community until that other mission trip comes back around the next year. There are always certain trips that have a hold on your heart and those are the ones that mean the most.

To come off of this mission trip high, it always helps to talk or to journal. You can express things that you wish were different or things you wish you could keep the same. You can write down or express feelings that you didn’t know you felt until you came back home. Unraveling from a mission trip is important and can also be very overwhelming.