The American Dream of Being an Expat

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Feb 28, 2025 · 5m

I confess that I'm a little lost presently.

I've become a restless, reluctant nomad moving tentatively through familiar places with a lingering 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 (and even more so in recent weeks), 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…