Tonight I am home alone for the first time in I can't tell you how long. I am sure there are sneaky nights tucked into my forgetful mind, but this is the first time in a long while that its Gracie, Ginger, Cat and I alone for four nights. It's ridiculously exciting. I have opted to stay home in Lexington for Thanksgiving this year. I will be avoiding the stress of the holiday traffic, and do something kind of foreign to me at this point-- being at home! I plan to share a meal with some good people and enjoy the day, but the weekend? It's completely open. I have some random plans and ideas, so we shall see what happens in the days to come.
In the time since my last post I have gone into NYC, traveled home to Virginia, enjoyed friends here- and did the ridiculous five hour drive back and forth to Asheville, NC for a wedding on Saturday. Life just kept moving right along, and I have had some great afternoons on my own, and evenings with friends, and now I am at my house just enjoying some Josh Groban (LOVE HIM) singing Christmas Carols on Oprah.
So as seeing tomorrow is Thanksgiving I have been thinking a lot about the things that I have been so blessed with this year, and what I hold to be so dear and true in my heart.
My home. A place I have been away from more times than I can count, but coming back to Lexington always equates warmth in my heart because this is where my "heart" is, as cliche as that may sound. I have been so blessed with girls to live with that love and seek the Lord and in turn have been stretched in living in such accountability, and love. The dynamics continue to change and mature, and as I continue to be made more aware of those ways and blessings I pray that we can continue to grow in love and in friendship.
Opportunity. I could not have embarked on this adventure in my sabbatical without opportunity. This takes a variety of definitions, but in the end it all comes together to create one masterpiece of a life. The financial freedom, the roommates at home that take care of home and Gracie, the Lord that has given the calling and push to jump off the edge of the plan, family that has not doubted my big picture and walked with me through the little steps, my goodness I could list on and on about all the pieces of the puzzle that have come together to give me this opportunity of adventure since July 26th. So, later in life- in the decades to come I will be most thankful for this time in 2007 and the way that the opportunity came to life into adventure.
Friends. I have truly been overwhelmed this year with amazing friends, for the challenges some friendships have endured, and for the relationships that have turned into some very beautiful reflections of Christ. I have been encouraged to be myself, I have been given the opportunities to say the wrong things and been forgiven, and I have been completely understood in the process of change by some who just get me. I am so ever thankful for those friends- the precious, the ones I did not choose, the friends that have challenged me, and the few in there that meet all the descriptions above and so much more. I am blessed and honored by them.
So that's just a short list of meaningful things that I could have rambled on forever about. My heart is full, and my spirit is saturated with thanks to the Lord. My words fail my Love and thanks.
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