This View is Changing Me

It's been a while. For the past few weeks, it's been hard to write what I've been thinking. But I suppose I can give it a shot.

For the last ten months, I've been on an adventure. It's been never-ending... one twist and turn after another. I've met lots of new people along the way, and even for old friends I began to see them in a new and different way. My view changed. It became different.

A time or two I've almost written, "I wish I could go back to the way it used to be." But I stopped myself. Where I used to be was comfortable, safe, and predictable. I feel like the four children once they've been in Narnia for a while. It's a depressing winter landscape, and they don't know quite why they're there. They're being led on this journey by something much bigger than themselves. And they almost wish they were back in the Professor's house, back in the English countryside. Back where they were before the adventure began.

This is all before they see Aslan, though. They end up finding the one who has been guiding them all this way - who has been leading their adventure.

This adventure that I am on has led me to many places... it has led my heart in many directions - to high moments and low. This recently has, by far, been the lowest along this journey for me. But I know I must continue. What was before is no longer there. Things are being made anew. As I open up my eyes to see, this view is changing me.

I hope it is for good. I hope it is for better. I hope, more than anything, that it leads me closer to the One who is guiding me.

hanging in there,
chris

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