June 1st- Moving Day

Moving is a very surreal thing.  It is a weird feeling to finally do the thing you have been awaiting and preparing for over the last 3 months.  We woke up this morning in Fort Walton, Florida to pack up the car and say our goodbyes.  Yes, I am 25 years old.  And yes, evidently I still cry when I say goodbye to my family.  I have learned I cry because I care.

We got on the road close to 9am to undertake an 11 hour drive with our final destination being Wilmore, Kentucky.  I was awake for all 11 hours.  However, Elise was only awake for 5 hours of the journey.  To her credit, she is a really cute sleeper.  We stopped for lunch in Montgomery, Alabama at a soul food restraint called Isaiah’s.  We loved it.  Our waiter unleashed a chorus of Hallelujahs when we told him we were currently moving to Seminary. 

For dinner we got to see THE Grant Terry, better known by me as Gripples.  (Great Nipples) Grant is my best friend and now lives in Nashville, Tennessee.  This was our first time to Nashville, so he took us to his favorite restraint and a brief tour of the town.  The restaurant and the city lived up to the hype.  It was really cool to get to see a glimpse of Grant’s life too.  We will now  be 3 hours away from each other instead of the 22 hours that had separated us the last three years.  We already have plans to see the Titans next football season.

Driving can be boring, but it is especially boring when you have a radio antenna that will not pick up any stations.  Luckily, we found my old cd case that had the music I used to listen to almost 8 years ago. It was a CD, not a cassett tape(I am not that old).  The CD’s we enjoyed the most were anything by Dashboard Confessional.  Elise had not heard of most of there older stuff.  I realized this was a part of me that Elise did not yet know.  This was crazy to me.

You see, when I was a senior in high school, I LOVED Dashboard Confessional.  A friend burned me a CD that had 22 acoustical songs of emo mushy gushy romance goodness.  I think that CD stayed in my CD player for a whole year.  I didn’t get tired of it.  Wow. I’m totally an emo for typing these last three sentences.

Anyways, there is a point to this.  It was so much fun to continue to show Elise a side of me she didn’t know.  And not only did she like getting to know other parts about me, she also liked Dashboard! Well, believe it or not Elise fell asleep in an hour, and I was left alone to drive and go into deep self-reflection.  (MORE EMO) As I reflected on what I use to like, my old favorite things, and my past, I was reminded over and over again of his grace for me.  There were many things in my life that as I reflected on them, I realized how God was at work for the first time.  Jesus really is everywhere.  It is only by his grace I am who I am today.  It is only by his grace I am where I am today.  As I reflect on my past, I am reflecting on His Grace. 

Yes, it’s fun for Elise to get to know a little more about me, but it was overwhelming for me to see a little bit more of His Grace at work in my life.