Change

This morning I was thinking about just how much life can change. Sometimes everything that was once so familiar completely disappears. People who were so very close are gone. And new ones, ones that make you wonder how you every lived without them, enter. I've been through tremendous amounts of change in the last 5 years. It seems I'm in constant transition. Trotting the globe, getting married to a Swede I met in Thailand, moving to Africa just 2 days after our wedding, living in 6 different homes across the world since then and countless hotels in-between, saying goodbye to my parents who moved across the country to Hawaii, in-laws in Sweden, siblings all over the states, and again moving to Asia in a month. On top of all that location change, I've been in emotional and spiritual transition... which I hope can be defined more as "growth" than simply transition because people can transition through life and never be different but growth is so much deeper and makes you more and more like God.

What made me think of all this? Well a combination of things I guess, but mostly it was holding my niece in my arms the last few days and wondering how that little person could take up so much of my heart in such a short amount of time. 

I can't imagine walking through all this change without one constant in my life... Holy Spirit. He grounds me. Speaks to me. Comforts me. Gives me peace and wisdom when I need it. I know that through it all... with Holy Spirit inside of me... I can do all things. He is on every plane ride, every train, every crowd, He is there when I'm anxious, there when I'm glad, giving direction when I'm planning, sitting with me when I'm alone. What a great gift the Holy Spirit is!! 

This picture always reminds me of the time in my life before everything changed. I was sunbathing with my mama right after getting engaged and we spent the whole time talking about what the future would look like! An adventure.. that's for sure!

Lyrics to a favorite old song by Vineyard... in the end, through everything I want to go on loving my Jesus!

This is my prayer 

This is my cry 

I want to go on loving You 

All through the joy, All through the fire 

I want to go on loving You 

I want to go on loving You 

Seasons will change, People depart

 I want to go on loving You 

In times of pain when life is hard, And when the journey seems so long

 I want to go on loving You

 Your love for me, new as the dawn, Older than time 

Stronger than death, greater than life

 This love is mine 

In everything, through all my life I want to go on loving You 

This is my prayer, this is my cry I want to go on loving You 

I want to go on loving You