I've been writing "Notes from the Sojourn" since 2008; 100 posts in five years is nothing amazing but I think this blog is accomplishing what I set out to do in 2008. Even though physically, I am in the same geographic place I was then, so much has changed in these five years. I started this blog as a way to tell stories from my travels & adventures in far away places. As I told those stories & shared my heart, I processed them & learned from them. Through one of the hardest seasons of my life, I learned that it's not only in far off places that adventures happen & experiences change us. So I kept blogging, even though the people I started writing this blog for were living across the hall & across town and probably knew way more about my "adventures" then they wanted to know.
I love looking back and seeing how I've grown & changed in five years. God has so beautifully woven people, experiences, places, pain, beauty, hope & love together to make me more like His Son in five years. If you asked five-years-ago-me where she thought she would be on July 14, 2013, her answer would be quite opposite from the reality I am living. Yet, these last five years have been full of more than I could have asked, hoped or imagined in 2008.
And that makes me excited for the next five years, and ten years and twenty years and fifty years! I have no idea where I will be or what life will look like but I'm confident that the years will hold more than I can "ask or think according to the power that works within {me}" [Eph. 3:20]. God is so good and so faithful to His kids.
Thank you to my thirteen followers and everyone else that stops in now and then to catch up on my life. Many blessings!
laughing at the days to come :: photo credit to B.Hammar Photography
(being besties with a photographer has it's perks! lol)
