(Our b-day sign complete with rainbow over the ocean...yes, we planned it!)
(Celebrated Drew's b-day)I lived in the "this doesn't seem real" place for awhile. I still sometimes feel like I am there. It took leaving to feel such gratitude about our house and Maui. When you are holding something, there is a certain belief that you will have it always and so one lives in the "luxury" of "forever feelings." So I could complain about what a big house to clean, that we don't use all the space, and so on... We don't live as though we and the things around us are temporary. I wasted in some moments something I just had for a short season (at least for now).
So now I want to live these days in gratitude instead of just longing and feeling sad.
It's like I finally surrendered to Maui and now the fight is done and the drawbridge is lowered and I am able to leave.
Yet there is also a confidence that there was good before our home, before Maui, and that means that there will be good after!
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