Options

If you're like me, you rarely find yourself without options. Sure, we all like to think that we "have no options", but if you really think about it, our options are usually limited by us and our self-generated circumstances. Not always, of course, but usually.

So, with our recent move down to Florida, our family has been presented with lots of options. Where to live, what house to buy, what schools to send our kids to, what church to attend, etc. And I'll have to admit that there have been MANY times during this journey that we have felt like our options were limited, and in a sense constraining. Almost to the point of wondering if this was the right decision to move. After all, most of those "option" elements were already resolved in Atlanta.

But then, as we sat back, relaxed, prayed, and...wait for it...."waited", we saw more options come to bear. Those of you that know me know that waiting is not the most fun thing for me, but I think I am getting better at it through a variety of circumstances where I have had no choice but to wait.

As of today, we still have options floating around unresolved, causing a bit of discomfort But, after we got back from the beach yesterday (our first visit a whopping one MONTH from the day we moved here), we realized that there is much that has been resolved for us. Our family. Our faith. Our health.

And that very, very beautiful beach at our doorstep.

I'm going to choose to focus my emotional well-being on those points of resolution, rather than on our "options", and let the other side of my brain worry about our options and how to resolve them.