One Year Anniversary

Exactly one year ago today we pulled into California, minus one vehicle, minus all our belongings, minus our confidence. Knowing only this: we needed to be here, for whatever reason.

A year later, all I can say is that we’ve been changed. It has not been an easy road. My husband has not yet had a paycheck, some days we do not feel settled in our own skin, and just last week Tony was saying he feels all spun about, but my…my how we’ve changed. We are not like we were when we came here. We are better versions of ourself. We found stuff deep inside us we didn’t know existed, and we’ve grown as a family, tighter, closer, more dependent on God, more verbally open with God (He hears it all – both the good and the bad), more confident there is something going on with our lives, a much greater purpose.

There are millions of little pieces of our life that seem broken and scattered now, but we know that God will grab all those pieces together at just the right time. We are being changed. We have been changed, and I now know that tough times must be walked through, not avoided, not run from, not ignored. It is through them that character is built.

I have NO clue what one more year will bring. But bring it on. If I am this much changed a year from now, as I am from this past year, I will embrace that. Life gets sweeter with living it. I am thankful I still have a lot of growing to do. Life would be boring otherwise.