100th Post: Moving!

I have not been the most consistent blogger over the years. I have changed blogs at least a half dozen times, and at one time tried separating out all my interests into different blogs--talk about your ridiculous ideas. But, today marks the 100th blog post at my current blog address.

Fitting that this significant entry should be about something significant in my life, this may be the final blogpost from my current physical address. I once again am leaving home. Okay well this time it's more like taking a trip across town. Our family friends, the McCoys have graciously offered to let me live with them. So, tomorrow I will pack up my car and move my things over to Town Hall Rd., St. Charles, IL.

In many ways, I will miss seeing my family on a daily basis, but I have been home for nearly two years since I came back from my "failed" (or "successful but short-lived" as I like say) venture in Michigan. And, I feel that this is the time to move out again. Even though this isn't exactly "being on my own," it is a change of scenery that will allow me to grow in ways I'm sure that I can't even imagine right now.

Excited and sick with poignant anticipation, I embark on this new chapter of my life and embrace whatever lessons I have to learn from it. I look forward to starting this new year with such a significant change. God has been so good to me. He has provided so many things in 2011 and years past. He has provided me with parents who have kindly allowed me to come back home when I was job searching. These same parents have been patient with me, as we all adjusted to daily life together once again.

He has provided a job for me at a place where people are respected and valued--which is rare to find in retail. And, now He has provided this opportunity for me. It is so exciting to see this as the first major provision of my new year, and I can't wait to see what else He has in store for me in 2012.

I still anxiously await the day I can move into an apartment of my own, but for now I drink in the bittersweet joy of this move and will praise God for His provision through these dear friends.