Can your heart be perfectly happy and in love where God has you, yet long to relax/breathe in another loved locale as well?
I love. I mean LOVE where God has us. The community that God has wrapped us in is like nothing our little family has ever felt. They are more like family than anything and we could not imagine doing life without them. Our closest friends... we love doing life with them. My bestest friend and I though long for a change of scenery during the hot summer days here. We both have lived in states that lavishly wrapped up in water fronts lined with trees and mountains. We both long for the mountain air and scenery. Summers are hard for us here. At least we have each other. So grateful for that!! I'm pretty sure texting pics of the scenery love doesn't help does it? Haha!
I think that has been the hardest adjustment since moving is no mountains to go explore in (unless I plan a road trip in my state). I miss my volcano view and the water... oh the water views. There seemed like such adventure out there as we drove the mountain and National Park roads, something we haven't quite found to "replace" here... yet. I am holding out hope that God has it out there we just have to find it. It's going to be hard to replace Mount Rainier views and travels though... I won't lie. It will be hard to replace the pristine views of the Olympic National Park and the sunset on a cloudless Seattle night (Oh yes... They exist and are to die for!) setting along the Sound.
(I know not in this picture but they do exist)
See... :)
My new southern state holds its own majestic views don't get me wrong but the longing my heart has for the Pacific Northwest is something I am wondering if will be filled the same breathtakingly way as up there. Our travels over Memorial Day brought excitement of seeing new places but not the same tree, fresh mountain air kind of way.
So, I think we will be on a hunt and prayer for heaven here in the South. I different kind of heaven than our old state held but one that soothes the soul in a similar way. It might not be watching deer tracks, or fresh glacier runoff down a pristine mountain run off, whales spouting in the Sound, seashells to collect, but I'm positive it could be something we will end up loving just as much. A place we feel as much peace as we did then.
It's our second summer here and God has plans. My heart will be open to find all God wants us to discover in this new season of our lives. I will be forever grateful for all we got to explore and experience in the last season, and know that it's ok to love two places at once. As long as I am not chasing and looking back where I am not supposed to be. My eyes are forward and grateful. For the moments my heart longs for a different scenery or a quite tranquil spot... I'll just change the wall paper on my computer. *wink*
2 comments:
Maybe you guys can trek down to Austin one of these days. It's very green there and I think they have mountains (or at least rolling hills around)
there is God's beauty everywhere...but i agree, the mountains are just amazing. we still miss them.
He is so good and faithful! :)
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