Finally Free!

Galatians 5:1 says, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." This has been my life verse for 2008. I made a lot of deplorable decisions in 2007 that I am still learning to live with in 2008. A dear old saint from my church where I grew up, Mrs. Irene Willett, used to tell me, "dear, you can choose the sin but you can't choose the consequences!" :-) And she was right...

I was offered a new job out in Washington state that I've accepted. I start on July 29th. My heart is glad to have a "fresh start" in a new location but there are mixed feelings about leaving Lafayette. I will dearly miss my co-workers, my physics friends, and my church family. It's hard too because I'm leaving here a much different person than I was when I arrived four years ago. I'm not as young (obviously), and I've learned a lot about the world. My heart mourns for what was lost this last year but I've learned to let go of the past. (Although, it has taken me a year to reach this point of letting go - I'm a slow learner!) God's grace is amazing, illogical, and completely incomprehensible to me... Praise the Lord!

My favorite quote (currently) is by Brennan Manning and I might have used it in this blog before so I apologize for not being original. Anyway, he wrote, "My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it." How true...