A Year of Change

If there is one thing we can always count on it's that life is ever changing.  This year has brought us a graduation, two weddings, a partially empty nest, and a funeral all in just the first six months. We also took a family vacation for the first time in five years and I had a persistent feeling while we were traveling that this might be the last time that our family travels just the four of us.  My oldest was even then making plans to leave the nest; she followed through shortly after and my youngest will follow.  My favorite workplace friend is retiring, leaving me wondering how I'll ever make it without her, because although I love my job, maybe she's the reason I've loved it so much, and perhaps it's time to move on if she won't be there....You see the spiral I get lost in.

I see the young people, the teens and early 20s, in my life feeling lost and desperately searching.  I tell them it's OK not to have everything figured out yet and that most people feel this way at this age.  I tell them to be patient and have some faith that things will work out.  And, yet, here I am at twice their age and then some, suddenly feeling that same kind of lostness and wishing like crazy I could just take a quick peek at life a few miles down the road so I know not just continually hope that things will turn out alright.

At times like these, when life is moving so quickly and everything is changing, it's important for me to: slow down.  breathe.  pray.  listen.  As much as I wish I could know the future, always make the right decisions, or at least have some measure of control over the outcome, I simply cannot.  Life is an amazing journey with so many twists and turns.  There are seasons of grief and seasons of joy and neither one lasts.  Things are always changing and that is the great beauty of it all. 

Outfit Info: Bordeaux Connie dress by Retrospec'd from Modern Millie, Shoes from B.A.I.T. Footwear