The River View Journey

I have posted several memes lately which relate to long-lasting friendship, especially as it relates to difficult seasons. I think I have shared the posts mostly as encouragement to myself. I continue to walk this season which is difficult, lonely, and deeply marked by the absence of one of the most important people in my life during the last nearly twenty years. Today, I found this quote about friendship: "A  true friend  is someone who neither leads nor follows, but walks with you. " This season is, for me, marked by the fact that I do not have anyone who is walking with me or whom I am walking with. Too, many people in my life are affected by decisions I have made. Thus, many are persons whom I can't walk with or who cannot truly walk with me in the rhythms of a deep friendship.  Sure, I have lots of acqaintences that are fun to sometimes hangout with. I have one friend who is still there, but whose attention is spread mostly on my daughter, her God-child right no...

I have spent some time in this new year working to organize all the ideas I have in my mind to write about. I have been creating lists of topics and others lists about various aspects of each topic. I have never really considered myself a writer. In all the days of my life thus far, my writing has been on a topic or subject that has been assigned. So, I thought developing lists related to my blog and my ideas to write about might help inspire me. I have spent the last 2 weeks working many hours at my new job. The days and hours have also been filled with the final tasks relating to my move to a new house. Developing my lists for my blog writing has been snuck into the schedule in little stolen moments. I plan for my writing to become much more regular. It has just been difficult to fit in moments to write anything of substance during these busy days. But, I did want to let any readers out there know what I am up to. One thing that has been a joy and blessing during these days has been ...

Have you ever felt you were trying to come to terms with too much new? This is definitely my struggle currently. New month, new year, new decade. Then there is new house and new job. I am really trying to be open to the possibilities within so much newness. Perhaps my struggle is that it is winter in the northern hemisphere and all around me are leafless trees and dormant grass, no flowers and mostly mud. Today did provide some beauty from snow flurries. But that just reiterated how cold and damp the air feels. There was a time in my life when it was easy for me to see that "new" pointed to resurrection. Hmmmm what does resurrection mean? It's definition? Resurrection means "raising up". In Christian perspective it points to a an actual event in the life of Jesus. But resurrection is also a hope for the end of the life of people. It's a hope for all of creation. It is a hope-filled perspective that physical death isn't the end, but that we will be raised...