What I miss most
It's been almost a year since we embarked on our return journey back to Texas. It's been tough and long and we are still working hard to plant roots. Today, as we played outside and I was forced to pick up all my loose screws (yes, I have a few loose ones) on my garage floor it brought me back to a time not so long ago in a place far far away!
Man, what a year it has been. Its hard deep inside to rearrange your life, when we first moved away we were still kids and had no plan or idea how we were going to make it. We spend years growing our family and forging new paths in our lives. We made friends that we dearly miss and established a life in a not so familiar land. It was where we had a lot of firsts. Like our first church family in Maryland and our first bible study family in Virginia. I stopped my first and only robbery to date. It is where we had our first dog and our first gym and our first home, which is where we tiled our first bathroom and I replaced my first sink, etc.
Which brings me to my purpose.
What I miss most would be my "man space." it wasn't much and most guys would laugh at it. There was no large TV or posters of sports and women. There was no beer on tap or even a couch. Nope, it was my garage and workbench. It was.... My first.... I built this work bench myself and it is where I displayed my collection of tools and fix its. It was my first place to go when I needed supplies or when I just needed me time. But most of all it was all mine and organized. I love organization and having things exactly how I want them to be.
We all have one of these places, a place we feel the most attached to. I do miss lots of other things too, mainly the familiar feel of our old home town and the places we knew. But, I am grateful to be on this journey though, one that will have new "firsts" and with old family. One though that hopefully involves me having my own nice and tidy and organized work bench again. Of course, my wife will be the only one nodding her head in agreement with me on this one though :-) because only she knows me best.
"So is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." Isaiah 55:11
Man, what a year it has been. Its hard deep inside to rearrange your life, when we first moved away we were still kids and had no plan or idea how we were going to make it. We spend years growing our family and forging new paths in our lives. We made friends that we dearly miss and established a life in a not so familiar land. It was where we had a lot of firsts. Like our first church family in Maryland and our first bible study family in Virginia. I stopped my first and only robbery to date. It is where we had our first dog and our first gym and our first home, which is where we tiled our first bathroom and I replaced my first sink, etc.
Which brings me to my purpose.
What I miss most would be my "man space." it wasn't much and most guys would laugh at it. There was no large TV or posters of sports and women. There was no beer on tap or even a couch. Nope, it was my garage and workbench. It was.... My first.... I built this work bench myself and it is where I displayed my collection of tools and fix its. It was my first place to go when I needed supplies or when I just needed me time. But most of all it was all mine and organized. I love organization and having things exactly how I want them to be.
We all have one of these places, a place we feel the most attached to. I do miss lots of other things too, mainly the familiar feel of our old home town and the places we knew. But, I am grateful to be on this journey though, one that will have new "firsts" and with old family. One though that hopefully involves me having my own nice and tidy and organized work bench again. Of course, my wife will be the only one nodding her head in agreement with me on this one though :-) because only she knows me best.
"So is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." Isaiah 55:11
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