Still reflecting

Have you ever looked at something without really feeling like you're grasping it? You keep looking, sometimes even straining, all the while trying to explain to someone what's in your line of vision, and you bounce between moments of clarity and blurs. That's kind of how this last month has felt. The last thing we want is for this last year to be packaged up with a pretty bow and set up on a shelf to look at as "our little adventure". This year was real life. This coming year is real life. How do we take what one year of life taught us and apply it to this next round of ever-moving life? At the same time, there is a necessary time of reflection and gazing after a year of this kind of significant lessons. We haven't written much this month because, while we've been talking and talking and talking as we catch up with loved ones, we often feel lost to aptly describe what we're thinking or feeling.

On the pragmatic side of life, our days in and days out have been full of continued grace as we are welcomed into one house after another - but we're so ready to land in a little corner of the world we can call our own again! So of course we're looking for jobs, both traditional and not-so-orthodox, knowing that we would be fools to think the Father would lead every step for this last year only to abandon us now that we're in a place we "know".

We'll try to get better about intentionally describing what we're peering at through the looking glass as real life continues.