Ya’ll it is the last day of June! Say what?! Am I the only one wondering just where in the world SIX full months of 2021 has gone? I mean I am glad that we are so far from 2020 but yet it seems so surreal that we are here.
It has reached summer status here in Virginia and I love it. Simply put it is HOT ya’ll! But while most people I know look at the weather daily and cringe I’m currently sitting outside on my front porch writing because I truly love every bit of this. It’s a good thing it’s just my thirty minute lunch break though because as much as my dog loves it, he can’t handle the heat and will be ready to back into his AC soon!
I am also reflecting as I sit on the porch, on six full months of living in this house. Our ‘new’ home. The first house we can call ours truly. It’s everything we could have asked for and we’ve been so happy here. I live in a neighborhood now, one with an HOA of all things, but our section is so peaceful and quiet. The only noise I can hear at the moment other than my keyboard and my spotify are the birds chirping. If you are a nature person then you can imagine it, it’s wonderful.
Endings always bring on beginnings and I tend to always get in a place where I reflect as I look ahead. I’m definitely in my feelings a bit today and I’m assuming it has something to do with the change of the calendar. Maybe there is some solar system stuff mixed in there I don’t know because other than occasionally reading my horoscope I really don’t know much about those moon, star, galaxy theories.
June was rough, I’m just gonna say it. Rough. We watched one of those situations that “only happen to other people” happen to people we love and it was hard. Though I’m in a better place this week, I don’t believe my heart will ever heal from all of those emotions. In my last post I talked about how my faith has been challenged this year and whew has that come back at me. I’m feeling in a much better place, in fact now instead of running away I feel that I’m running towards. It’s like I need to make up for whatever time I’ve lost and get my head and my heart back in alignment with God’s word and more importantly God’s will.
I give all the credit for where I am today to a man who lost a son. Let me explain! If there was ever a time to say “why God why” then it has to be when you lose a child. I strongly believe that no parent should ever have to go through that and definitely not when that child is still a child! But over the last month I watched someone important to me stand strong and proud in his faith. I don’t know how I really don’t but his faith in his God never wavered despite the incredible pain he was feeling. That is faith.
I’m not claiming some crazy transformation or being reborn. I was a Christian before and I still am. That’s why I am being transparent in just saying that sometimes we fall but we can always get back up. He doesn’t leave us, we leave Him. It’s not a cliché, it’s the truth. And I for one am grateful then when I need healing in my heart I can call on Him.
So wow July! In case you didn’t know the 4th of July is my favorite holiday. Maybe it’s because my Dad’s birthday is in July and so when you add that to growing up in a very patriotic and proud family; well July has just always been special. I’m so excited that this year there will be parades! One of my favorite things in the world is to watch a good parade and see all the fire engines, yes it’s childlike, and I thoroughly enjoy it!
I pray today that you take a few moments to reflect on June and on half of 2021 already being behind us. I hope you look ahead to July with great hope and big dreams. Every day is special and a gift, enjoy it, thrive in it and chase everything you desire!
~Carla
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