This will be my third year of sharing music during an Advent season. I started this effort in 2012, then followed up in 2014, and now am sharing music this season as well because it seems necessary to me. Not sure if it's an effort to offer hope during a hard time or an effort to find hope during a hard time. It has been a hard time these past few months, this year. After almost 20 years living in the Central Valley, I've moved to Southern California, and am starting over again… in a way. It has been exciting to be in a new place, close to my daughter and grandbabies, but it has also been hard, having left family and friends, familiar places… to start over.
I discovered something interesting with this move. My life can be marked in twenty year increments, give or take a year. I lived my first score in west Texas, my second score in the Bay Area in Northern California and then my third score in Central California. With this move, I embark on my fourth score in Southern California. Boy, does that make me sound (and feel) old… Just gotta remember, I'm at the beginning of this score, not the end.
That aside, I found it interesting to see the pattern. Not sure what it means, if anything, other than I am getting older. I do admit, I find those who have spent their lives in the same area/place quite fascinating. They've got roots, a history in one place. I don't have that, but I don't feel any regret. It's a reminder that I need, I guess, that this is not my home.
It's been an interesting journey, thus far. God has been faithful. He has provided. He has sustained. I've not been the best at acknowledging that provision and sustenance. But looking back, I see His hand in so many places and in so many ways. Despite the places this journey has taken me, too, I am grateful for it. It has been quite the adventure and I look forward to more adventures this next score of years, should He tarry.
I heard this song on my Folk Angel (Holiday) Pandora station (you should give it a try). I think it works for this post.
All Things Elda 