Looking Back
Today is December 29, 2009… that means that there are only two days left in the first decade of the 21st century.
The decade in which I was a mommy for all but 9.5 months.
The decade that saw me move from Arizona to Washington, (back) to Colorado and back to Washington.
The decade in which Eric & I finished school and turned the page into “real adult-hood” – and into parenthood.
A decade where I was unemployed… a lot
…and a decade where I became a small business owner.
It is a decade where I stepped into a leadership role that God called me to.
It was a decade in which I lost my earthly father, and held my daughter for the first time on the same day.
It was a decade of hope, despair, faith, trial, fear, peace, birth, loss and so very much more.
When I look back on the past 10 years I see so many things that have helped to mold and shape me in to the person that I am today – and the person that God is (slowly) making me into tomorrow. And I wouldn’t trade very much of it.
New friendships were made, old friends were lost, and through it all God has been leading and guiding us. Moving us from one place to the next – keeping us in this world but not allowing roots to sink in too deeply in any one place.
I don’t know about you, but I’m excited to see what the next 10 years will bring about! Our girls will grow up and begin their life journey’s. They will move toward what they want to do with their lives and hopefully will listen to that still, small voice inside of them for guidance. They may even fall in love somewhere in there (although I hope that waits until the next 10 years!) We may move again, we may not. We may actually put down some temporary roots, who knows. One thing is certain – life will be very different 10 years from now, just as life now is very different from 10 years ago – and I am curious to see what God will do.
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