CHANGE!

What a time of change! There are less than two weeks left until moving day. I have so many thoughts that I almost don't know how to sort them out. I feel as if one big change is the catalyst for other changes, big and little, to happen in my life.

I think back to the year after I graduated from college. Talk about big change! I graduated in December 2002 and moved home leaving most of my friends with another semester to spend together. The changes I remember were traumatic at the time, maybe less so now as I reflect, but big ones in my oh-so-young life! There was the disappointment of a fizzled romantic relationship, the death of one grandmother and then the other, the marriage of a close friend and the engagement of a lifetime kindred spirit, the loss of a community of my immediate peers, the decision to go to grad school, the summer of few friends, and the list seems as if it could go on and on!

Woven in amongst all of these changes was the gentle prodding, which soon turned into a persistent chasing, of the Holy Spirit. I remember, after bouts of spiritual dryness, or during particularly sad times, how comforting I found the promises of Scripture to be. As I am in the midst of so many changes and gearing up for a host of others, I hope I can remember the way that there was sometimes sweet, sometimes fierce, and always persisitent guidance of the Holy Spirit in my life and recognize it here and now in the present.

Am I really a blogger?

I'm going to blame a busy schedule for my lack of recent posts, which is so lame. Everybody has a busy life and if writing the blog is important to me, I just need to carve out just a little niche of time to post.

So, is blogging important to me? Ummm, I think so, yes.

Why is blogging important to me? Now this is the question that begs an answer. I guess, as I've stated before, that I've come to enjoy writing more and more as I get a little bit older. Maybe I'm becoming more reflective and contemplative as well, but mostly I love reading blogs, and how presumtuous of me to expect to read other's blogs without contributuing something for them to read and have an opinion about.

Here goes another go around at the regular blogging...In the beginning I said that I was going to blog once a week, most preferably on Sunday afternoons with a cafe mocha (hot or iced, I'm not picky) sitting on the table next to me. I think that is an admirable goal and one that I will strive to keep. I will even post pictures very soon!

But now, what juicy or interesting little morsel of my life can I share with those who read the blog? I should do a quick rundown of life from the last couple of months...but that would take to much time. I'm just going to say, I'm very excited to be moving to the East Side with Bethany MacKay and Amy Brooks. June 1st is the move in day so if anybody is looking for something to do that weekend, I'm sure we could help with that:) I also love how much love and support I am getting from my mom and dad and brothers. I may be just a little biased, but I may come from the absolute best family on earth!

I need to write a whole blog on how wonderful my mother is (and I will), but to celebrate the amazing woman my mom is I just want to say HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!