Life's a Season-Day 1

Well, I feel that this is a real joke.  You see I am not a writer.  In fact I can't even spell half the time.  Thanks to spell check, my husband, children & if push comes to shove-a dictionary-something gets written.  I guess you can see that English was not my best subject.  Anyway, I am only doing this to read & keep up from time to time my family & friends blogs.  I had to become a blogger to read blogs.  I don't believe anyone will truly read this blog.  I might never write again.  But, it is a beginning.

I would love to begin a project like the book & movie-Julie & Julia.  If I took on that project, I would really blimp out & it would kill my budget.  Especially, since I have already bought all these different wonderful grains to grind up myself to make flour for healthy breads & desserts.  We"ll see.  I would love to have the book though & make beef bour.....  What's that word?  Oh well.

I picked this title because I do believe that we do live our lives in seasons.  I know that this is not a new thinking, but it has lately been my mind.  So the title.

I am fixing to end this season of my life.  In a few weeks, I am moving to Little Rock, AR.  For the last 9 1/2 yr I have been living in the beauty of the NC mountains.  I lovingly call Highlands- "Mountain Mayberry".  It is a quaint little resort town with about three traffic lights.  Safe as can be.  The weather is never above 85 degrees in the summer & it usually always has a breeze.  Downtown has about one long street of unique stores & restaurants.  Great falls, rivers, & hiking.  If you love golf, you are in the right place.  It even has its own playhouse.  It is about 1400 elevation & all roads lead up to Highlands.   Kind of like in the Bible, all roads lead up to Jerusalem.  It is a seasonal town, meaning many of the people who live there only live there half of the year.

Before moving up here from south GA, I thought I was moving to the Antarctic.  Why you ask?  Because, going from living without real cold & snow to living in some cold & snow scared me at the time.  I thought it would be freezing & snowing all the time.  If fact now we can't wait for that first snow fall-even if it is just flurries.  Last year was a little much-30 in of snow.  One thing is for sure, these mountains have been a balm of Gilead for me.  If you don't know what that is, look it up in the Bible.  It will do you good.

These mountains have gradually restored my soul.  I have enjoyed the four seasons of the year.  I am going to miss the beauty of the mountains, the hearts of close friends that I feel safe with, & my alive in the LORD church to name a few things.  I have been blessed to have lived here & will miss it.  Being here has made me a better person in all respects.

As beautiful that this place is, I am moving toward four beautiful people that are more beautiful & very dear to my heart than all this.  God has given me more than I could have even imagined.  I could not even dream or desire living in the same town of all our children & our one precious grandchild.  God has opened the doors wide to give my husband one job, at one place, in one state, & we well be living together all the time instead of half the year.  Looking forward to getting use to that.  We haven't had this for about three years.

Well, this is more that I thought I would even write, especially for the first day of writing.
                                                         ann :)