Why would I want to start a blog in the age of information overload?

I’ve put a lot of thought into answering this question the past few weeks, and want to answer that up-front but maybe I can do that by explaining what “Telegrams Home” are meant to be.

My wife and I are citizens of different countries, and we’re expecting our first child in a few months. That, in and of itself, isn’t remarkable – especially in Europe, but growing up in Ohio in the USA I always imagined I’d live out my life in Cleveland. Beyond that, I wasn’t planning on getting married – and definitely never never even thought about having kids.

But times have changed, or maybe better put, I have changed, in the past twenty years. One thing led to another, and I found myself living in Germany’s Black Forest. We’re expecting our first child, and slowly the fact that no matter where we’ll live, we’ll always be away form family, has started to sink in. What’s more is that the little runt who we’re expecting in a few months will likely never have the same feeling of home that either my wife or I grew up with. Beyond that – we live in an absolutely STUNNING place, that in itself is a melange of cultures – where Germany, Switzerland and France all come together at a point, near Basel.

So some meditations on all of this craziness seemed both timely and appropriate.

Ultimately a huge part of this boils down to our faith – part of which is the belief that we, people, are created with both with intrinsic value and an innate desire to belong instilled in us by the creator of the universe.

This blog will be musings on that, played out- an imperfect attempt at navigating the waters between cultures, between hopes and disappointments, and sometimes just plain fun. All coming from the place where life, faith and culture collide. These “telegrams” are the messages we want to send home – the home we slowly build wherever we are.