Kisses from Katie by Katie Davis Majors
Week 12: Chapter 11 — "Where I Belong"
Read Chapter 11 of Kisses from Katie. Key Scripture: Hebrews 11:13-16; Philippians 3:20.
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Where is home? Where do we belong? Katie's answer to this question has become beautifully complicated — and it holds a mirror up to what we all ultimately belong to.
Discussion Questions
6 questions1.When Katie returns to visit family and friends in Tennessee, how does she describe the experience? In what ways does she feel like a stranger in the place she grew up? Have you ever had a similar feeling of not quite belonging where you used to belong?
2.By the time of this chapter, Uganda has become home for Katie — but it is an imperfect, costly, sometimes heartbreaking home. What does her complicated relationship with "home" reveal about what human beings are really longing for?
3.Hebrews 11:13-16 describes the heroes of faith as "strangers and aliens" on earth who were longing for a better country — a heavenly one. How does Katie's experience of belonging nowhere quite perfectly reflect this biblical vision of the Christian as a pilgrim?
a.Do you experience your faith as making you a stranger to the world, or have you largely made peace with fitting in?
b.What would it look like to hold your current home and culture more loosely?