I'm honored that you'd stop by. Humbled that you'd read on. Here are my musings on family life with God's Grace as my focus. "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." -Mother Teresa
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
03/28/09
Here are some of the pictures I snapped on our moving day last Saturday, March 28th (Racine, MN). This day is one of the 'Great's' thus far! It was very much a homecoming!
We are SO glad to be back!
If I may be totally candid here, I will say that our time in Rochester was not all a 'bed of roses'. I will go a bit further in my 'garden' analogy. It was almost two years John and I spent in Racine. While much good came from lessons learned and wonderful new friends made. It was a lot of 'scattered seed's'... I often felt like I was simply observing. I never felt grounded... with family and close friends just two hours away, we were constantly pulled back to the cities (in a good way).
But, in this uncertainty, I found out who I was.
It was a non-eventful, repetitive and boring time for me. Looking back I see how God was working in my heart, 'digging' up deeply rooted 'weed's'... Last summer, I often took walks on the trails that ran along the side of the corn fields. I would find it interesting that the farmers working hard to prepare, plant, cultivate and then harvest their fields, very much paralleled what God was doing in my life.
I told a friend on the phone the other day, that: "I felt like I had come back from a long missions trip [sort of]".
This past Monday, I drove back to clean up the "white house" (as Sadie calls our Racine house). When I was done and had loaded the last box of stuff, I paused in the kitchen. I was overwhelmed with emotion as a flood of memories poured through my head [Sadie's birthday's, milestones, and Lauren's birth...].
Then, at the threshold of the back door, I envisioned myself standing on a springboard, knees bent, ready to jump! Jump into what? I'm not sure. But God knows...!
My prayer for you: That you may embrace each season in your life. The depth's and the height's. Learn and give, and grow and go on in God to the best of your ability!
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fun blog, jen! i'm slightly addicted myself:)
blessings to your family as you settle into your new home.
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