Transitions

You know what it feels like to have a vision of somewhere you'd like to be or something you'd like to do...or even someone who you'd like to become and it just hasn't happened yet? Well lately I have been processing this very thing. I think about how much really lack the gift of gratitude for all that has been done! This new year has brought me some still moments of reflection upon what has been, what is, and where where I am going next. So many questions don't seem to bewilder me anymore and I am becoming grateful for them because there is a challenge and mystery there.

My time of living in Hawaii was good. I reflect on the original purpose that God had for me to finish what I have started: the School of Biblical Studies.... It is so good to trust that he knows what he is doing, even when we don't understand why. He brought me back there and I believe it was to do something foundational in my life. I have the space to dream again and am much more grounded in the Word. Psalm 97:1 says 'The Lord is king! Let the earth rejoice; let the any coast-lands be glad!' He is the King over all and reigns over the events that happen in my life. As I was in Hawaii there were many times of discovering how this is true. The coast-lands are glad because he is the King! Even when I don't worship him...all creation does. He waits and longs for this. There is something like a regrouping, regathering, reconquering, reestablishing that has happened in me since in Hawaii and I am thankful. There is no longer looking back but looking forward in hope.

I have moved back to the NW and took a job as a full time nanny...which I love! The are are two little ones: the girl is six and the boy is three. They are such a delight. I live with two lovely ladies who love the Lord and enjoy a good time too. I am feeling quite blessed and know that whatever I have in my life comes from the Lord, the enjoyable and the not enjoyable, but at this point, I am wanting to just say 'Thanks' in all things...while keeping HOPE in my heart strong.