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A Place to Land: A Story of Longing and Belonging Paperback – March 9, 2018

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Where is my home?

This is the story of a woman who watched “home” slip away again and again—through her parents’ divorce, a foreclosure, two international moves, ten rental homes in ten years, and her mother’s terminal battle with cancer. Add in the challenge of cross-cultural marriage, and Kate Motaung was constantly adapting to a new environment. When home is supposed to be synonymous with love and comfort and safety, unpredictable and unwelcome life events—even the chosen but challenging ones—can shake you to your core.

A Place to Land is a globe-spanning memoir that wrestles with the question, “Where is my home?” Motaung authentically shares her brokenness over the divorce of her parents, her gnawing grief over her mother’s death, and the joys and sorrows of her cross-cultural life. Whether or not your struggles are similar to Kate’s—divorce, grief, financial uncertainty—you’ll feel her losses and grow through yours.

Journey with Kate across two continents to find the answer to one of life’s great questions: no matter where we go or what we do, this world is not our home.

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place to land, south africa, home, belonging, family, heaven

Meet Author Kate Motaung

I moved ten times in ten years, bookended by transatlantic moves from Michigan to Africa and back again. I married a South African and had three kids in Cape Town, but struggled to feel settled while hopping from rental to rental in a foreign country.

Where was my home, anyway?

When my mom passed away at age 59 after a nine-year battle with cancer, I started thinking more about heaven and realized it’s so easy to want to establish roots here, to desire deep foundations in this temporary home.

But what would happen if we set our minds on things above, not on earthly things (Colossians 3:2)? What would happen if we lived each day with an awareness that eternity is but a breath away?

My prayer is that through this book, you would be reminded that these “light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all” (2 Corinthians 4:17).

South Africa, home, belonging, heaven, family, eternity

Cancer. Divorce. Foreclosure. Loss. Grief. Pain.

Nobody expects or wants these realities to barge into their life. But they come anyway, uninvited. The question is, what do we do then?

It’s easy and common to look for satisfaction in this world—to strive and labor for happiness and fulfillment here and now. We long for safety, for stability, for security.

But we will soon discover that the pleasures of this life are temporary. They can be snatched away at any moment, often without warning.

When we learn the hard way that this life is full of hardship and trials, we need something more—something that lasts. Something eternal.

A Place to Land challenges us to see beyond this life and to cling to the only treasure that will never spoil, perish, or fade—the hope and promise of eternal life for those who trust in Jesus.

A celebration of home, eternity, longing, and belonging

Engages you in an interesting story and focuses your heart on heaven as home
Addresses the common tension of living on earth until heaven is reached
An appealing multi-cultural, multi-continent story of family and belonging

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“This book will make you homesick for places you’ve never been. But more than that, it will make you homesick for the people you love. Michigan and Cape Town are full-bodied characters in this story. But this book is about how going home sometimes looks like uprooting ourselves from everything familiar in order to make our home in the heart of someone else. It is a hard journey. But as Kate so tenderly teaches, it is the truest happy ending.”

-- Lisa-Jo Baker, best-selling author of Never Unfriended and Surprised by Motherhood

“The best memoirs either pull the reader into the author’s compelling story or draw the author’s universal truths into the reader’s story. A Place to Land deftly manages both. Despite the many challenges she faces, Kate presses on, urging us by example to do the same. In the end, her thoughtful conclusions about longing and belonging may well become our own.”

-- Liz Curtis Higgs, best-selling author of Bad Girls of the Bible

“We have all experienced home as longing and loss. Can we find hope in our seasons of suffering? A Place to Land confidently answers yes, lifting our eyes beyond this fragile, temporary life to a better world to come.”

-- Jen Pollock Michel, author of Keeping Place and Teach Us to Want

“Kate Motaung draws us into the spacious place of God’s never-ending love. Into a place where we can land, forever.”

-- Emily T. Wierenga, author of Atlas Girl and Making It Home, and founder of The Lulu Tree

“A Place to Land will be an inspiration to anyone who is wrestling with God through life’s unexpected losses.”

-- Lynn Austin, author of Where We Belong

“As a missionary kid, I always felt like I'd never quite found my place. Kate understands the tension of being pulled in several directions, bearing the burden of loved ones from thousands of miles away. A Place to Land is more than an honest memoir—it’s a hopeful narrative of a home lost and found, and a gentle reminder of our Companion all along the way.”

-- Asheritah Ciuciu, founder of One Thing Alone Ministries and author of Unwrapping the Names of Jesus: An Advent Devotional and Full: Food, Jesus and the Battle for Satisfaction

“Every one of us was created with a yearning for a place to call home, a place to belong and to rest. And yet, as Kate so beautifully writes in this book, our sufferings force us to come to terms with the truth that we will never fully be at home in this world. Let Kate’s story break your heart, and then let the truth that pours out of these pages settle into your soul—that only eternal life with Christ will forever satisfy your deepest needs for belonging and home.”

-- Kelly Givens, editor of iBelieve.com

“A Place to Land is a page turner. I found myself swept up in her story. Honest and authentic, Kate brings the reader into the highs and lows of life and the hope found with and in Christ. Her vulnerable writing lifted my eyes and recalibrated my heart to long for home.”

-- Vivian Mabuni, speaker and author of Warrior in Pink: A Story of Cancer, Community, and the God Who Comforts

“I’ve heard it said believers are so heavenly minded they’re of no earthly good. Kate’s compelling story proves the opposite. It’s exactly because she’s learned to take the long view—living with eternity in mind—that her impact in this world is so startlingly powerful. This is Kate’s story, but it’s yours and mine too.”

-- Dalene Reyburn, author of Dragons and Dirt: The Truth about Changing the World―and the Courage It Requires and Walking in Grace: 366 Inspirational Devotions for an Abundant Life

From the Back Cover

So was I heading home? Or not? The conflicting voices in my head kickstarted a long-lasting soul search.

Heavyhearted, Kate boarded the plane to fly to her mother’s funeral. When a woman in the next seat asked, “Are you heading home?”, Kate wasn’t sure how to respond. An American Christian living in South Africa with her native-born husband and children, she was flying to Michigan where she had grown up. Kate stammered an answer, but wrestled with the question, “Where is my home?”

This is the story of a woman who watched “home” slip away again and again—through her parents’ divorce, a foreclosure, two international moves, ten rental homes in ten years, and her mother’s terminal battle with cancer. Add in the challenge of a cross-cultural marriage, and Kate was constantly adapting to a new environment. When home is supposed to be synonymous with love and comfort and safety, unpredictable and unwelcome life events—even the chosen but challenging ones—can shake you to your core.

“But maybe this tension is how it’s supposed to be,” Kate writes. “Maybe this home isn’t meant to feel safe. Perhaps we’re supposed to squirm in discomfort and groan with longing for the only place where moths and cancer ‘do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.’”

Journey with Kate across two continents to answer one of life’s great questions: no matter where we go or what we do, this world is not our home.

Item Weight : 11.2 ounces
Paperback : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 162707662X
ISBN-13 : 978-1627076623
Product Dimensions : 5.38 x 0.56 x 8 inches
Publisher : Our Daily Bread Publishing (March 9, 2018)
Reading level : Baby and up
Language: : English

Best Sellers Rank: #1,010,182 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #132 in South African Travel Guides
- #218 in Extended Families
- #5,181 in Christian Women's Issues

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