I have truly wonderful friends. I've been blessed to meet them wherever I live and have managed to maintain most of those friendships even after one of us moves away. The group of friends I have right now are especially amazing: they're the closest I've ever come---with a group of friends, anyway---to feeling as though they're family.

But talking to them about my faith is like talking about dragons. To them, it's all mythology. We can discuss the nuts and bolts of religion, but we can't discuss faith. Faith is belief and heart and, for me, awe and joy and comfort and vulnerability and strength. I don't hold it against them, absolutely not, but it leaves me feeling lonely sometimes. And considering how close and included I usually feel around them, that loneliness aches all the more and leaves me feeling insubstantial somehow.

What I need is to find friends who share my faith and add their fellowship to my life. But that is a lot easier said than done, especially when I've yet to find a church where I feel at home.

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