Free Fallin’

 

 Yes, I did name this blog after Tom Petty’s 1989 classic. And while I appreciate the musical styling of Mr. Petty, that’s not exactly what this blog is about…

 

 

October was the three year anniversary of the beginning of my international ventures with Adventures in Missions. Here we are now in the midst of another fall season and the Lord has brought some great reminders to the forefront of my mind.

 

Sure, fall is a season where things visibly die. Where the leaves change colors and fall to the ground leaving the naked frame of the trees that once held them. In the past, that is what I have chosen to focus on.

 

What about shifting our focus? 

 

 What if transition didn’t have a negative connotation?      

 

                  Fall in Sibiu, Romania

 

 

 

 

What if we looked at the journey?

 

As I drive to and from work I see the process; leaves still on the trees, leaves on the ground and leaves FALLING.

 

Falling.

 

 

It’s the falling I see this year. 

 

            Fall in Horgen, Switzerland

 

 

There is freedom in the fall. In the past the thought of falling in any sense seemed to mean failure. This fall God is revealing to me that in the midst of transition there is freedom to fall. 

 

Freedom brings a lightness to my everything.

I walk taller.

I dance more.

I laugh constantly.

I let tears slip down my face freely.

I embrace that the fall is part of life and that I can choose which lens I view it through.

 

           Fall in Gainesville, Georgia

 

“And now I’m freeeeeeeee! FREE FALLIN’!”

-Tom Petty