It's all new!

So its been awhile since I posted on my blog and I thought I better write something. We recently moved to a new city and it has been an interesting change for me. The scenery is gorgeous here. We are in the middle of fall and the leaves on the trees are slowly changing to beautiful shades of orange and yellow. There are crisp leaves skipping along the sidewalks as the brisk wind blows them to and fro. At times I feel like one of those leaves. My life has been turned upside down in the last month or so. I was happy in my plans for the year and thought that I had everything figured out when all of a sudden everything that I had planned and had wanted to do in the upcoming months went flying out the window and away before I could catch them. All it took was a small gust of wind to turn my life all topsy turvy. I do not regret our move nor hold hard feelings about the reason for moving, I am simply learning to adjust. Why do you think God works in this way? Why does He let you think that one thing is going to happen and then all of a sudden with no warning you are set on another, completely different path? As I sit here and watch the leaves frolicking in the autumn wind I am reminded of the circumstances of life and how delicate life itself is. I don't think that we as Christians or as humans for that matter truly understand how fragile life is or how easily our lives can be changed. All it took for these leaves was a bit of cold and wind and they are removed from their home and left to wander on their own. I am so glad that my life is in the hands of God and that no matter how far I go in this world I am not alone.
This past month in a new city has taught me a lot about priorities. I have realized that family is a huge priority for me. I always knew that it was but when you lose all the familiar things in life such as place, church, the apartment we had, job, etc. you start to understand what things you really need to hold on to. And for me that thing is family ( and friends!! =) ) . I am very close to my family and it is hard to me to be separated from them. I have had to rely on God more for companionship and for strength than I have had to before, when I was in a familiar, comfortable place. Its hard being in a new city with no familiar things. Even the small things are different like the grocery store and where you used to store your toilet paper. I don't have a handy little cupboard anymore and so I had to be creative and learn new ways of doing things and new places to go. Its made my husband and I closer in some ways because we are more thankful to have each other. To make this move alone would have been very hard but to have a spouse that embarks on these new adventures with you is phenomenal! Marriage is such a blessing from God!
Life is good and God is amazing!