Half Way There

Wow! It has been a while since I last posted something. Brad is half way there. Where? We don’t know. But he is half way through his time in seminary. Hard to believe!! We are on the downhill side of the mountain.

This semester brought on new challenges that I have had to work through. I am learning to settle and be content in the present….to make the most of each day. If this year and a half went as fast as it did…..how fast will the next year and a half go? I remember sitting around the dinner table with friends last December and toasting them for being half way there. And now…they leave the community in five short months!! No way time travels that fast. How different our lives will be next year!!

I have taken this semester to look back in my life. The past lets me know where I came from and why I react to life the way I do. It forms my perspective and ideas about the way things should be….good or bad. I have had to wrestle with my perspective in order to determine if I am reacting based on my past experiences or on what I know to be true to who I am now. I find this a constant struggle as life stretches my beliefs and leaves me searching what it is I actually value. It is a constant work in process….finding out what works for me now.

The future holds too many uncertainties. I am the type that loves to put my hopes and dreams into what the future might hold. They key word is MIGHT. I am learning that the future holds possibilities that I cannot even fathom. If you would have asked me five years ago where I would be living today, the answer would never have been NYC. In fact, I would have had some sarcastic remark to follow up such a foolish idea. But here we are. AND what an experience it has been.

So, who knows where we are going? But for now, we will live for the moment.