An American Lost in America

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Dec 3, 2023 · 4m

I confess that I'm a little lost presently.

I've become a restless, reluctant nomad moving through familiar places with a hovering emotional dissonance.

I am a lifelong American who is profoundly disoriented trying to navigate this nation now.

I was born here and have spent most of my half a century and change here—and yet in recent years, I've begun to feel more and more like a stranger in my homeland.

There are dozens, sometimes hundreds of moments in a given day when I look around and I simply don't recognize this place anymore. It all seems terrifyingly foreign.

Waking up every morning…