map out your future, but do it in pencil

"Who knows where this path will take us, but let's go forth... because it may lead us somewhere vast and amazing."

{FreyaArt}

I was reflecting this morning as I drove down Minnesota streets in 22 degrees.

I am here. Who would've thought.

This place is already so familiar to me. It's been five, almost six, months. Yet it feels like a lifetime. Maybe that's a loving hint that I'm exactly where I need to be.

Sometimes it suddenly occurs to me how strange it is that I am where I am, wherever that may be. I've tried to envision this time in my life for years now... never would have pictured it this way. But that's how it has been for a while now: so many wonderful surprises.

I don't want to cease going. I want to keep pushing myself into change. Into the perilous and chancy things.

I hope He keeps me there.

Some have encouraged me that I've gone too much & too far to ever do differently. But I think we all can easily fall prey to whatever numbs and immobilizes us. We get stuck, and we choose to settle into the mire.

Let me remind you [and me] :

"Be alert, be present.

I'm about to do something brand-new. It's bursting out!

Don't you see it?"

Is.43:16