I love rainy days. There is something calming for me in them. I feel content for some reason. Maybe it is the instinct to curl up in a warm blanket with a nice lukewarm cup of tea and relax. All of life's cares are washed away with the rain. I am enjoying this feeling of contentment today as I tonight starts our five days of craziness and I could easily be overwhelmed. Maybe the rain is my Godwink of the day. In my content mood I was thinking of how much I prefer the rain of Texas to the snow of Colorado during the winter. The last few weeks I have come to the realization that I may miss Texas once we move. (BTW...the countdown is 17.5 months before we have the ability to move) I remember when I was dragged down here almost two years ago and thought there was no way I would ever come to like a single thing about Texas. It has taken a year and a half to appreciate anything about the unorganized, egotistical, behind the times state I live in, but now I can see some good things.
When we first moved here I had exactly three things that I liked about living in Texas. One was that Brad had a job. Thank you God! A month before Brad would no longer have a job in CO, we found out he had gotten the job here in Ft. Worth. That was a little nerve racking! I am so appreciative that we are so blessed with a well paying job. The second thing that I was thankful for was the apartments we lived in had a trainer that had a class three times a week. She was (is) amazing and it was one of the first times that I have looked foward to working out. Brad and I both did the class and loved it! There will be a blog about this sometime I'm sure :P The third thing that was good about the move down here was that Brad and I were able to come closer in our relationship and really be our own family. It is hard not to have family close, but we had to learn to depend on each other which is so important!
When we bought our house here we started looking for a church. We really weren't having much luck. One Sunday we visited the church we go to now. That Sunday the sermon was on the detours of life. The pastor at the time referred to how the Isrealites could have had an 11 day journey but instead they had a 40 year journey. I wanted to learn the lesson that God was teaching me now so that I didn't have to live here for 40 years! I'm pretty sure the lesson was that I need to trust Him in where He takes me and that I need to be content in the situations that I am in and praise Him. I do feel content here although I still miss CO and do look foward to one day moving back.
I have found some wonderful friends who are able to put up with my wacky and unsocialable ways. Anna has found some girl pals that she truly enjoys. I love that Matthew has little baby friends and that Brad has guys that he can go hang out with. Although it isn't my dream home, I'm very thankful that we were able to afford to buy a house (which there was no way we could have if we lived in CO). It meets all of our needs. I'm very thankful that we have pushed ourselves to get involved in different activities. In CO, we felt that we were living life in a rut and the move most certainly pushed us out of that! When we do move, I know that there will be a part of me that misses living here, but I know where I am that God has an adventure that will blow me away waiting for me!
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