And so it begins… I was once a young child swinging in the backyard of our little house in Lincoln Nebraska. I would run around with my puppy Casey and eat cherry dilly bars from Dairy Queen, my short pig tails flopping about and my bangs held back with a clip. I would sit and look out my living room window seeing all of the sweet things that filled our world.
And so it begins… As of precisely 11 days ago I became an adult- 18 years of age! Woohoo! Yet, it honestly doesn’t feel any different from any year prior. I still look out my living room window and see the joys of the world, yet now I can also see the horror. The horror that wanders the streets of every town. The broken and the beaten. Those struggling to find truth and grace in the presence of a dark world. But now I turn 18, faced with a world I know- yet one I still have no grasp on. Excited I am to explore it’s realms as a woman suited in the Armor of God.
And so it begins. There is light. There is hope as the year has changed from 2017 to 2018. It is a fresh start for many and an ending to the last semester of high school for me. I walk through the halls and witness the many people around me and I see a future in their eyes- yet doubt still fogs them over. Fear. I hold fear as well of growing up as we see teachers- adults- living their lives. But it’s a new year. It’s a new day. It may be our last first day but so it begins. And with strength we seek the joy of today, tomorrow and always.
