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For those of you who don't live here in Colorado, did you know it is tough to find a native Coloradan? It seems that everyone is from somewhere else. Even me. I grew up in a suburb just west of Chicago. Then one day when I had an early mid-life crisis I decided that I needed a change, so I put all my stuff in a U*Haul truck, put my car on a trailer, and off I went west toward the mountains.

I figured the worst thing that could happen if things didn't work out was to load everything back up and head back east.

But it obviously worked out for me, eh?

I feel like a grafted-in Coloradan now. I married a Colorado native (ya I actually found one), and my whole life is here now. It took about ten years, but I don't feel like I'm "from Chicago" anymore. This is my home, where I belong.

I sound more like I'm "from Chicago" after a few glasses of wine... I develop sort of an "accent"...

       Oops ~ I digress :o)

Sometimes it takes a while to find where you belong. So many people wander around, aiming their lives in this direction or that, never really feeling like the life they are living is where they fit. Where they belong. Where we belong isn't always comfortable and sunshine and smiles, but God didn't promise that it would be. He only promised that He would be with us and never leave us. That everything would glorify Him in the end.

Maybe the discomfort or dissatisfaction is God's way of telling us we need to do something different? Be somewhere else? Pay attention to Him more?

Like He's knocking on the top of our head and saying, "Hellloooooo!"

I wandered for so long. I finally feel like I am home. Home in God's arms, home with my loving husband, home with our three sons, at home with my life. I know I need to make certain things a priority to be the best person I can be, I know the things in my life will always be changing, and I know if I focus on God then everything else falls into place.

Life has gotten funny that way.

(((hugs))),
chris




Then this message came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “I am the Lord, the
God of all the peoples of the world. Is anything too hard for me?"
            Jeremiah 32:26-27