Reflecting...

This weekend and the beginning of this week was a whirlwind of goodness. I got to spend so much time with people i love...and having good conversations - catching up with people i hadn't gotten to see since i've been home. I just kept thinking, "man, i am so full...this is so good." and i am so thankful for time with people who know me so well...and love me so much.

Also, this week i had the opportunity to share in one of my dad's classes about my last year. they'd just finished reading "the good news about injustice" to it worked well. my dad mentioned maybe i could show some pictures, so i was looking through the folders of pictures, and i started to think, "man, i have a lot of really good memories from the past year." and then i realized it would probably be really good for me to take some time and look through all the pictures from the last year. i think that in the process of coming home, and asking all these questions - trying to "unpack these bags" i brought home with me its easy to only focus on the hard stuff, or the hard questions, or the things i can't figure out, or the things i need to grieve. It was so good to be reminded briefly of all the fun too.

so, i'm going to start looking through those pictures, and spending time focusing on all the fun, and all the adventures and all the good...cause that balance will be really good for me in this process of coming home.