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The sights and sounds of the nearing season are always my favorite. I hear a familiar sound of geese overhead and see the ditches filling with mustard seed trees. The wafts of frequent campfires, perhaps, and the shifting sunlight filters in and out in unexpected moments and ways I savor it all... as I can.
Driving here and there down unfamiliar country roads, around our new home - brings to mind memories of what now feels like oh so long ago.
I decided to pull up old photos, today. Oh!! Tugging at the heart strings... are days - moments in time- that I can't ever get back.
My little's. They are growing up so fast. Our old homestead. Not the same as it once was. I tear up! Where in every season, there - I found time to capture it with the lens. I have fond, fond memories held in these photos... its like I was truly being intentional in every thing I did. With everything I saw. Seeing the beauty in every nick and corner of the old place.
Its hard to do here. Everything is still so "new" and unfamiliar. It's not embedded deep within. Yet!! There is no nostalgia, here. Yet!! I'm trying. I'm trying to imagine... new things. New things that settle my soul when I see them. When I hear them.
Is it strange that when my littlest one says... "I want to move back home to our old house"... that I can relate?!?! I mutter those same things...under my own breath, sometimes.
Thing is? We can't.
This is where new roots are being established.
Its that old thing, new thing going on. Can anyone relate?
I remind myself, almost daily. That God, my Heavenly Father, knows
all about it.
And... Scripture reminds me, he would say to my heart...
“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 in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland." - Isaiah 43:18-20
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 in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland." - Isaiah 43:18-20
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What is that NEW thing God is calling you, to??
What is that NEW thing God is calling you, to??
Oh my sweet Bevy..this tugged at my heart because even though my days are different, I too am in a new season trying to find my footing. I long for all the days of yesteryear, and memories are flooding back..I will be fine and will find a new normal, and I pray and know you will too. I loved how you realized in your journey of how you were intentional in your days, and that is something that we all must do if we want the best life possible. Intentional with giving thanks to all seasons that we walk and give most thanks to Jesus above. Without him nothing matters. Love and hugs on this beautiful day in Kentucky. So glad I can call you friend.. XO
ReplyDeleteHi there, Bev. I haven't been by your blog in a bit and am catching up on your posts. I think of you when I drive past your old place and hope roots go down quickly in your new space. Blessings to you in this new season,
ReplyDeleteTracy C
I love that verse from Isaiah! It was one of the very first I memorized way back when and it's been on my tongue many times throughout my life.
ReplyDeleteI still have dreams sometimes of our old place in PA. Miss it still but wouldn't trade our "new" home for anything! It took some time....
LOVE to you all ~ Mitzi