Saturday, September 4, 2010
How Do You?.....
Im sitting here looking at pictures on facebook and remembering the moments that were captured in those pictures. And yet as Im looking through the pictures Im wondering if there will ever be a way to go back to the days when everything was far less complicated and less painful and less stressful. I mean I know things change and people change and we grow as well as growing apart but will it ever be the same. People come and go from our lives and its the going that makes it hard sometimes. But I keep reminding myself thats the way things are.
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Goodbyes are never easy. As a pastor's wife i had my share of goodbyes to people important to me and the ministry. Our last move was the hardest! But God has many more adventures in store for us and His way is best!
ReplyDeleteBut pictures are great though. Windows into the past. That's why I like them so much!!
As a Navy wife (retired now) I definitely know where you are coming from. It seems life sometimes gets way too complicated, too political, too chaotic -- but it sure is beautiful when we stop and think of how it is all orchestrated and how God has total control over it, when we allow Him. He has it all planned out so far in advance that when we look back years later we can see how all the pieces fit together.
ReplyDeleteWill it every be the same again? Well, in some ways it is, when first married it isn't too difficult to go back home and it seems like you never left - but years later when you have a family of your own, time has a way of making the say "You can never go home again" come true. It isn't that you can't physically go home and that you don't love the people there, but as we grow things change.
Life is full of great adventures (just as Steven Curtis Chapman sang) and we are to have joy as we go through the journey! Photos are great, memories are wonderful....learn from them, cherish them - but live in the present and look forward to the future. The number one thing that I had to tell myself each time we transferred---"We decide how well we will like this current command and location. For my family, for my husband, for myself and most importantly for God, I have to make the best and rejoice in the current situation." It isn't easy - but with God all things are possible!
Ive also looked back at old photos and contemplated what my life would have been like if I had never met my husband or if he hadn't joined the Navy or if we would have not had our two beautiful children. Would I still the irresponsible twenty-something drifting through life with no purpose? As we move forward in our lives things constantly change and evolve, we will go through highs and lows and hopefully we end up a bit wiser. I had a friend once tell me that people come in and out of our lives either for a lifetime, for a reason or a season and I have definitely found that to be true.
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