WOW! It is December already and almost the end of a decade! So much has happened over the last year let alone the last 10 years of my life and as I sit here contemplating how the next 10 years will look like, I feel something I have not felt in a long time…The best way to describe this feeling is with a metaphor.
Imagine a beautiful boat setting out on a voyage on the big blue SCARY ocean, this boat just picked up one day and set sail without really preparing with all the necessary supplies needed for this long trip. Along the way the boat haphazardly discovered new lands and began to accumulate things from each stopping point. It began to feel fuller and more equiped to handle the tough scary ocean and as it did, the ocean began to soften its waves and if you listened really closely there was a rhythm, a hum in the ocean’s very core…it began to work with the boat to get it to wherever the little boat desired to go.
I feel like the little boat at a point where it has anchored, I am taking a break from all the wonderings and now I pause to enjoy and savor all the riches I’ve accumulated. I’m soaking in all the beautiful lessons and trials that I’ve faced and conquered. I rest now until I am ready to lift that anchor and set out again to bigger yet perhaps gentler waters, however NOW fully equiped to handle the worst storms and the biggest waves that come my way.
I welcome the next year and the next decade with open arms, great strength and true love. I am so thankful for the little boat that got me here and have the deepest faith that this vessel will carry me to even more exciting adventures beyond my imagination.
Portugal Voyage
