Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home, a sentiment that I hold near and dear to my heart.  To me it doesn't really matter where I call home as long as I have those that I love close by.  For eleven years I called Portland, OR home.  To me it really was home.  It was my own place.  I found it on my own, got a job there on my own and moved there only really knowing a handful of people.  It's where I became a mother, and raised my daughter for the first part of her life.  I made more friends and enjoyed my time there, but like many good things in life it came to an end.  It was gradual, but I knew in my heart it wasn't where God wanted me to be.

When change comes into my life I can feel it deep down.  It stirs my soul and then the "small still voice" that speaks in quiet whispers begins to work it's blessings, and I find myself moving in a different direction.  That's how it was when I moved to Portland, and that's how it was at the end of last year when I set out on my spiritual journey that changed my life forever.

Home these days and hopefully forever, is in a quiet little town across the sound from Seattle.  It's not a big place, or a bustling place.  It's small and quiet.  The people are friendly and the pace is easier.  It reminds me a lot of Lewes, the town I grew up in on the Delaware coast.  Ferries steam toward the hustle and bustle of Seattle.  The tide comes and goes.   There's not a Starbucks on every corner, but I know where the three in town are.  There's a Walmart and three large grocery stores.  I found the fabulous yarn store and have been in there once or twice getting stocked up for the wet winter ahead.  I have a library card and I'm learning who is who in the bank.

When I think about what makes home what it is, it isn't what I have, it's who I have in my life.  I have been richly blessed both in Portland and here, in our new home.  I'm doing my best to stay in touch with our Portland friends, while making new friends here.  We are so blessed to have so many wonderful people in our lives.  Home is sweet here, and growing sweeter all the time.  To those of you who have welcomed us and taken us in and loved us unconditionally, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.  May our life here be continually sweet with those that we love and who love us back!