Today is my third full day in Georgia, and there is a raging thunderstorm.
I don't really mind, after all I love thunderstorms. Right now I am sitting in the dark, on my new bed, listening to the rain dump down and watching a spectacular lightening show. Earlier this evening I posted a video to Facebook showing a little snippet of the storm and talking about how my parents used to wake us up, or let us stay up, to watch the rare lightening in Southern California. It seems fitting that as a new chapter in my life starts, it should open with this miraculous weather.
As I am typing away, the dog is asleep and snoring at my feet, little cheese is happily in dreamland, and the hubbs is preoccupied with a show on his tablet. It would seem that we are the picture of domestic bliss; In reality though, we are burned out, overwhelmed, overtired, and stressed out from the third move in as many years. It will be good for us to have some time to settle in, make some adjustments, and start to get this crazy little life in good working order.
If you had asked me five years ago (as I was preparing to get married) what I thought my life would look like now, I NEVER would have said that this would be it. Moving so much in such a short time, having a baby, crossing the nation, trying to go back to school, being as broke as the proverbial camel's back, and trying to make a new start from scratch, was not in my plan.
But I have to believe it was God's.
Rarely do people envision a traumatic bumpy road as their desired parth through life. Usually they look forward and see a smooth, straight path, that will get them safely to point B...the happy ending. Somehow, it seems that people (and me especially, though that may be a perspective issue) are always caught off guard by the blind corners, hair pin turns and sudden sink holes. I have learned that my life is so much more than the point A to point B that I always envision for myself. After all, I never would have re-met the man I would marry if it wasn't for that blind corner. I never would have had Baby Cheese if it hadn't been for that sudden sink hole. And surely, I wouldn't be living in a place that lightening storms are common if it wasn't for that hair pin turn.
Asking for Grace, and being thankful for my blessings.
...Nature girl
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