bon voyage!

Florida.... hmmmm.... Once we passed Exit 77 I felt the feeling of home again. It's a very weird feeling to come back to a place that you've lived most of your life. In some ways I miss it and in some ways I don't. When we first got here I got the feeling that I wanted to move back and go through the door of 9239, but now I have the feeling of wanting to leave it all... even though I always seem to miss it.

Sometimes I think I forget that I need to run to God with these "feelings". A lot of times I try to fix these feelings by using my mind to help me think of something else to get the "feelings" off my mind because they can sometimes make me "unhappy" with what I've already got. Of course this is NOT what I should be doing. I guess most of the time I forget that God wants me to go to him with everything. Even with something that I might think is silly like "feelings". God cares about everything in our lives and wants us to communicate with him.

The funny thing is that there was a plate thing at Aunt Cathy & Uncle Don's and it had John 6:35, "Then Jesus declared, I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty." This verse kind of sums up my situation... The feelings I had this week of missing Florida at first and then ready to leave the last day can be helped out by running to God because when you run to God, you will no longer be hungry nor thirsty.

One other funny thing is that the songs at the bottom of my page were all chosen when I first made my blog and this is the second time that I used one of the songs to help display the way I feel about something. Last time it was with the song "A Better Way", this time it's the song "Run to You". The lyrics are pretty much exactly how I've been feeling about the whole subject lately. Here are the lyrics.

"Run To You" - The Rocket Summer

Turn look, look out and see.
Do you see me? Cause I think I see you.
I've been some other place.
The wind that I chase, it all just leads back to you.
Oh how I'm still, so still its burdening, it's still outran.
I knew you when I was young, but where I am right now.
Is where I am.

Run to you, I will run, I will run
I will move, right on through all these things I have done.
And you'll take me back, I don't know why.
I wanna say I'll never do it again, but I can't
But I will try.

Turn and look, look out and see.
Do you see me? Cause I think I see you.
Ive been some other place.
The wind that I chase it all just leads back to you.
Oh how I miss what you miss, but I will fall time and again.
And I will say, that I'm true to you, but I'm a cheat.
I don't understand.

So I'll run to you, I will run, I will run
I will move, right on through all these things I have done.
And you'll take me back, I don't know why.
I wanna say I'll never do it again, but I can't
I wanna say I'll never do it again, but I can't
I wanna say I'll never do it again, but I can't
But I will try.

So that's what I learned this week!

I had a great time with everyone in Florida and hope to see you all very soon! Here's some pictures of our week!