The Rising Sun

Blogging has been on my mind lately. Over the past couple of months I have had the urge to start blogging again, but have been fighting my own procrastination tendencies. In the years past when I began my blog site, my intent and reason for starting it was mostly to show my vacations, the things I've seen and places I've been to.  I saw it as a way to document a trip and be able to share with family and friends.  But lately, different feeling and events have inspired me to want to start a blog in order to just journal and say what’s on my mind. As I’m starting to get older (yikes almost 30), I realize there are so many moments to be thankful for.  Moments worth remembering, moments to learn from and moments to be inspired by.  These moments shouldn’t just come and go, passing by quickly without reflection. I love the quote “Life is all about the journey, not the destination”. All too often we get caught up in the destination of life, looking at the end result of what we have made for ourselves or what we have, when what we should be focusing on is all the little details along the way that have helped to shape who we are.

For the past year I have worked at a hospital, doing registration for patients in the emergency room. I work part time because I go to school full time, but my hours at work for the past year has been weekends in the afternoon. Working weekends has a bonus and also a downfall. Weekends are great if you’re a student because then you are available during the week for classes and homework, but bad if you have a family you want to be home with.  I have found it to be tough because it causes me to miss events with family, friends, and spending time with my wonderful boyfriend Noah. He works Monday through Friday so on the days he has off, I had to work instead of getting to spend time with him. It often put me in depressing mood when I was not been able to attend family dinners, parties with friends, birthday, etc. So finally, after a year, I decided I needed a change. I started to realize how important these “life events/moments” were to me. Though work is important and something I need to do, my family is my life and nothing is more important than getting to spend quality time with them. So I received the opportunity recently to get a transfer at my work to a brand new facility that has just opened, where I have changed my hours to work nights. I know, yuck right? It really isn’t that bad. Especially with lots of coffee in hand! I get off of work at 6:30am, which currently is the exact time that the sun starts to rise. I have had several mornings on my drive home that has totally inspired me to start blogging because my feelings of happiness and joy for my life are so overwhelming that I want to share with the world. With the morning air cool and refreshing, I will roll down my windows, crank up my Christian music and worship God while I watch the beautiful sun rise up over the mountain in the distance, shining pink, yellow and gold rays of light over the earth. In this moment of beauty I find myself thanking God for a brand new day. On my drive I look around and watch the world wake up. The birds are singing and flying gracefully in the air, people are going for a morning job, farmers are attending to their crops and I can’t help but smile. God is an amazing and without him none of this would exist. My heart starts filling up with the love that I know the Lord has for me. Then when I arrive home, it only gets better. I am blessed to have a beautiful home, and as I walk into the house, I get the joy of saying a quick hello to my two kitties whom I love with a little pet before heading to the bedroom to get ready for some sleep. As soon as I walk into the bedroom, I pause to watch my handsome, wonderful man fast asleep in our bed. Boy am I lucky woman. A huge smile crosses my face and once again my heart is filled with love and begins to overflow. The love I have for this man is often times overwhelming. This man has made me a better woman and made me happier than I ever dreamed possible. I quickly rush into the bathroom, get ready for bed in record time so that I can crawl into bed and snuggle up to his warm body, giving him a sweet kiss and falling asleep next to the man who makes my life complete. Truly, life is full of so many joys. We need to stop rushing around and be reminded of God’s amazing love for us and thejourney of life he has gifted to us.