I'll Be Somewhere Down in Texas....if you're looking for me.

Tomorrow.. I head off to Texas - again, yes again. Though this trip has been planned for many months! I'm off to the great state until Sept. 7th and I'm so super excited.

On Saturday I get to see people that I've missed dearly and that I'm super crazy about.

On Sunday: continuance of above as well as attending a New Life service, which I can't wait for. (The podcasts just don't cut it...)

On Monday: Seeing my sister and Will again...and heading to Frankston to Mom & Dad's!

On Tuesday: Getting to see Sarah, Wade & Travis for dinner.

On Wednesday: Playing in Frankston (which I can't wait for...)

On Thursday: Repeat Wednesday

On Friday: See my most favorite Rachel in the whole world - it's been about 4 months and that's the longest it's EVER been. As well as see some family members as they begin arriving for a fun-filled-family-frankston-weekend!

On Saturday: Repeat Friday + getting to see Anna!! And more family I'm sure.

On Sunday: Play

On Monday: back to VA.

Man, when I spell it out like that, it seems soo short, but I guess it's not.

I still find it somewhat amazing how I "never thought I'd go home" and now, it's my favorite place to be. I'm thankful the Lord brought me away from my family, far away, so I'd know just how lucky I was and how amazing of a family and friends I have been blessed with.

Also - I'm reading a book titled "Through Painted Deserts" by Donald Miller - and I leave you with this quote - I absolutely love it.

And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses blooming out like children in a play. My hope is your story will be about changing, about getting something beautiful born inside of you, about learning to love a woman or a man, about learning to love a child, about moving yourself around water, around mountains, around friends, about learning to love others more than we love ourselves, about learning oneness as a way of understanding God. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?

It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

I want to repeat one word for you:
Leave.

Roll the word around on your tongue for a bit. It is a beautiful word, isn't it? So strong and forceful, the way you have always wanted to be. And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed.

--something I've needed to hear for a while.