two years time

Two years. 24 months. 730 days. It sounds like a long time if you're waiting for something like a paycheck to arrive in the mail or standing on a corner waiting for a bus to catch, but in the grand scheme of things it's a period of time that passes by so quickly that it can feel like just the blink of an eye. I imagine that when our son is born we'll feel the gravity of this truth even more. One day he'll be nestled helplessly in our arms and in what will seem like the next moment he'll be running around on his own in search of furniture to climb over and toys to hide in strange places.

Today I'm struck with the stark contrast of the life I was living two years ago in comparison to my life today.

On this very date two years ago, I wrote a blog and my life looked quite different than it does today. Click here to read my thoughts from 2008: http://crosseyedcontemplations.blogspot.com/2008/02/leavin-on-jet-plane.html

Within just a few short months of writing that blog, I would write another much different from the first: http://danandjillblankenship.blogspot.com/2008/07/once-upon-time.html

Now in 2010, here I am two years older, hopefully wiser, and definitely more blessed. I am in awe of the beautiful chapter that God wrote into my story, a chapter whose opening lines began with that very plane ride to Colorado. I'm so grateful that it is God writing my story because He is an infinitely better Author than I could ever hope to be.

My hope is that I am today just as eager for God to unveil this next chapter in my life. As Dan and I await the birth of our son and continue to pray for a new job for Dan, I want to anticipate the next sentence that God is writing into my story as much as I, as a single woman, anticipated meeting my future husband.

Two years from now, what will my story look like? I'm sure I don't have a clue. What I do know, however, is that the Author who pens this story is constant and loving and knows how to expertly redeem a horrific tragedy into a beautiful love story. I know that I will one day have that happily ever after that I have always dreamed of - a happily ever after that lasts throughout all of eternity...in heaven with Jesus.

I praise God for this story that He writes. It's not really mine after all; rather it is fully His.