Fall is here

Growing up I dreaded fall. Summer was my favorite season: there was no school, I went swimming everyday, we took vacations during the summer. As school started I grew uneasy every year. I did not like change at all. I can still remember the summer before I started high school: the nervousness and wanting to never grow up but be a kid forever. I laugh now as I remember.

I think it is because I just moved back to Colorado after a hot ten months in New Mexico that I am so welcoming to the new season this year. I have never liked coffee drinks but have found a new comfort in a Maxwell International lattes lately. JD and I have also given way and been some of the first this season I'm sure to already buy Egg Nog (side note: try the pumpkin spice if you haven't before, it's great!).

For whatever reason I'm becoming a fall fan. JD and I have made some major decisions and changes as far as jobs and location go in the last four months we've been married. I've joked with a couple friends that we've made more life changing decisions already than most do in their first few years of marriage. It has been exciting, but I'm ready to let the busy of summer go and embrace the quiet and stillness of fall. I'm ready to sit, to listen, to have an excuse to bundle up with blankets on the couch for the night, to just be and not do.

Fall also reminds me that a year is beginning to close. I've loved this year but it has been probably one of the most streching of my life and has most certainly required the most faith. Life as I've known it has completely changed a couple times over in the last twelve months so I am ready for some steadiness though I know there is still more change yet to come this year. I will share though, as we began to pray about moving to Castle Rock I was so clearly led to a passage in my hesitance that I've at times clung to in Isaiah 43: 18-19
"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way....."

My prayer is that as this season changes I will see and be part of this 'new thing'. I am learning that even when things seem impossible God is so faithful to make a way. I want to make sure I'm walking steadly on that path.