A New Season

It's really been an interesting week. I've put in a ton of hours working on little sleep and almost died in the heat yesterday.  I have a list of phone calls to make that's a mile long, my poor puppy is sick as, well, a dog, I've been in and out of strange moods that I'm unsure how to deal with, and I have had a complaining problem that I can't seem to shake...

Despite that, somehow, good things came out of this week.  Good, encouraging things.  The kind of things that make me think that I'm on the right track, I'm in God's will... and nothing can be sweeter than that.

On the drive home tonight, God gave me a sense of joy and fullness that I haven't felt in so very long.  I could feel his presence so strongly, it was as though he was giving me a giant hug and assuring me that I'm headed in the right direction and everything really IS going to turn out all right.  I drove forever. He showed me a glimpse of the beauty, grace, and freedom He's leading me to, while reminding me to learn from the past, but at the same time, to put behind those former things.

This is a new season.

"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?  I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland."  Isaiah 43:18