The rest of 2015

The rest of 2015 after the August post - what happened to it?  It was a period that was extremely difficult, some of it too painful to write about.  To dwell on.  It is a season to simply try to put out of our minds and move on.  It is a period that reflects great change, and if we were a tree, one that involved precise and extensive pruning.  We were "cut back" by difficult circumstances and were left with gaping cuts, wounds, and no leaves or anything beautiful to show.  Just raw bareness. 

We are in the process of recovering from that pruning, and the wounds are just starting to heal, and we have  yet to see re-growth of the leaves and fruit, but are beginning to have faith that someday they will return.

Those months from August until now were the months filled with our move from Maryland to Colorado, and though some things here are beautiful and wonderful, it was still hard to leave so much behind and start over.  Hard to leave our dream home.  Our friends.  The life we knew.

But God is faithful - and I have seen some good things come from the move - and I know that God is at work and bringing us "back to life" so to speak.  I know that it was His will for us to move here or we wouldn't be here - no matter the circumstances.  I trust that He has a reason - and that it will all be revealed in due time.  I know that eternity is far more real to us when we face trials of any kind, and I have a firmer sense of living for eternity and not for today, which is just a fleeting breath.  

I want to "catch up" in a broad sense some of the happy highlights of the rest of 2015 so I can move on and begin to post again.  So, my next post will be just a quick - very quick - catch up of the rest of 2015.  With just the happy stuff.