| | This decade has been an incredible decade of moves. I moved back to San Diego from college in Irvine, I moved into an apartment in La Jolla with Mary Ann and Tomoko, I moved to Dallas, I traveled back and forth from Dallas to San Diego several times, I returned to Dallas to plan my wedding, I moved back out to Dallas as a newlywed so Trevor could finish school and we could look for an assignment, we moved out of there to travel around and say our goodbyes before we took an assignment in Southern Asia, we moved all over that very populated city in that lentil-laden country before moving back to San Diego to focus on health where we moved three more times before last year we came to live in the apartment we are in now- a dog-friendly place with two bedrooms to accomodate the baby that was coming that next month.
There is now road construction every day right next to our apartment building. Evidence that the 15 is being widened to accommodate more traffic, the growing pains are accutely felt as we watch the wall being built closer to our street meaning car traffic will be closer to our living space. The construction dust leaves a thick layer over all our cars and the cones, dug up street, and big equipment take up precious street parking that all of us hate to see lost.
There is an unsettling-ness to the hard hats hanging off of half-built walls and huge cranes hanging above menacingly while we try to weave beneath them in the tight, war-torn street that leads away from our home. But it also makes me kind of excited-- I like the feeling that something new is happening and change is afoot.
I am reminded that though things look like a huge mess that will never end (all this freeway construction really does seem never-ending) and though it sometimes seems like things are just getting more wrecked for worse rather than better, there really will be a nice difference, a more favorable outcome in the end.
And so it is with my life. This decade that I just lived through was like a huge construction project, and though I had had high hopes that certain bridges and byways would have more progress by now, and have had major disappointment by the pitfalls and dead-ends in some of my roadwork, I have also been very pleasantly surprised in many other new paths that have been formed.
I'm certainly not finished but I'm not stunted either, and I think that the fear I had last year of the unknown potentially holding more scary bad stuff has sort of given way to the hope that my good God uses all things to perfect those that He loves.
One thing I do know, this milestone really doesn't seem as old as it used to.
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