Nothing is the same. January 2, 2010 shifted everything. All that I have known, found comfort in and learned to rely on over the past few years is temporarily gone. I am taking on a great adventure. One might even say, a "life changing" adventure. I packed my bags, dropped off Ladybug with the Rebels, said "See you in April" to dear friends/family and moved to Lana'i City, Hawaii for a time period that is just shy of four months. My hope for this blog is to capture my experience of life on Lana'i and share it with all of you who I so dearly love and miss.
It is here in Lana'i where I find myself redefining ordinary.
January 11, 2010 addition:
My roommate Sarah inspired me to purchase Listening to Your Life by Frederick Buechner before I left the mainland. Today the meditation beautifully captured how I am feeling about this whole experience.
Your Own Journey* January 11
What I propose to do now is to try listening to my life as a whole, or at least to certain key moments of the first half of my life thus far, for whatever of meaning, of holiness, of God, there may be in it to hear. My assumption is that the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all.
For the reader, I suppose, it is like looking through someone else's photograph album. What holds you, if nothing else, is the possibility that somewhere among all those shots of people you neer knew and places you never saw, you may come across something or someone you recognize. In fact- for more curious things have happened- even in a stranger's album, there is always the possibility that as the pages flip by, on one of them you may even catch a glimpse of yourself. Even if both of those fail, there is still a third possibility which is perhaps the happiest of them all, and that is that once I have put away my album for good, you may in the privacy of the heart take out the album of your own life and search it for the people and places you have loved and learned from yourself, and for those moments in the past- many of them half forgotten- through which you glimpsed, however dimly and fleetingly, the sacredness of your own journey. - Frederick Buechner
1 comment:
brookesy...brought tears to my eyes, i read that one on january 11th, too. i hope that you "flip through" lanai ten years down the road and still feel exhilirated, and i am so grateful that our stories get to run into each other! i love you!
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