intense feelings of homesickness

[Brittany]

In regard to certain posts above, I remember Quo speaking in a certain channeling about how all emotions, even sadness, anger, homesickness and the like have a purpose and can be useful. It is important to experience the emotion and use the catalyst it provides. Being consumed by the emotion is the point where service ends.

http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/is..._1226.aspx
(here's the whole thing if anyone wants to read it)

I don't think there's anything wrong with experiencing homesickness, frustration, weariness, etc. As if there is a switch you can hit to just turn it off...I'd LOVE to find that one. We were formed to feel the full range of emotion, not just sunshine and rainbows, that we may fully know the human experience. How else can we feel compassion for our brothers and sisters? For me, this inner hurt drives me to serve all the more. I realize if I knew it hurt this much to come here and I still came, then I must have loved this place a whole bunch, and my desire to help it was stronger than everything else.

In time one can learn to see the joy in every moment, but being able to do it instantaneously takes time and work, and even if you can find tons of love and happiness in the moment, I don't think that necessarily has to cancel out the initial feeling of hurt. The feeling becomes transformed into something useful, not vaporized into oblivion.

And I don't think sharing your feelings is whiny...I think it's a way of dealing with them so that they don't consume you and you can *continue* to provide service. I of all people know the headache that hoarding emotions causes. Comforting and encouraging one another in our times of sorrow and pain is an enormous opportunity for service, if you ask me. One I'm glad to be able to engage in.