I have been living in the Loveliest Village on the Plains for 6 years, if you start from the beginning (minus a 10 months stay in Atlanta). It has been a lovely experience. I love this town. I love my family. I love my friends that are almost like a family. I love my church, which is another type of family. I have been blessed. I was also blessed with a job in January - but it was not in this lovely town on the Plains. It was an hour away, in a large, busy, concrete city. Nothing against large, busy, concrete cities, but I'm just not that kind of girl. But I do love my job in that large, busy, concrete city. I love it so much that I decided that I needed to make that large, busy, concrete city my new home.
Yes, that's right. This kid has "moving" in her blood apparently. I just can't seem to be tied down very long in one place.
I am moving stuff over this week to live in a house with a girl that has the same name as me. This is not my first time to live with another Hannah. And I don't have split personalities with the same name (for those of you were thinking of make a joke). She is also a teacher. We will live in house, and I am excited. I really am.
Leaving the Loveliest Village on the Plains is not an easy thing to do, especially since there are so many things that I love here. People, places, restaurants, Church. But, when you see the Lord guiding you, you must, must I say, obey. I am obeying. He has opened a new door for me, started a new chapter, and I am looking forward to see what it holds.
School starts next week for me (oh, dear Lord, help!) and so I am trying to get as much as I can moved over there before school starts (all the while working around teacher work days and open house...yeah). I will begin the search for a church home. If I can beg of you to pray for me, this is what I would ask for:
- an easy transition to living there
- success and ease of moving there
- preparation for school (and not freaking out!!!)
- *finding a church home*
- making friends (for those of you who know me well, this is vital to my life...being with people is like breathing for me)
“Like a comet pulled from orbit,
As it passes a sun.
Like a stream that meets a boulder,
Halfway through the wood.
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you,
I have been changed for good
It well may be,
That we will never meet again,
In this lifetime.
So let me say before we part,
So much of me,
Is made of what I learned from you.
You'll be with me,
Like a hand print on my heart.
And now whatever way our stories end,
I know you have re-written mine,
By being my friend...
Like a ship blown from its mooring,
By a wind off the sea.
Like a seed dropped by a sky bird,
In a distant wood.
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you,
Because I knew you,
I have been changed for good.”
― Stephen Schwartz, Wicked: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
As it passes a sun.
Like a stream that meets a boulder,
Halfway through the wood.
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you,
I have been changed for good
It well may be,
That we will never meet again,
In this lifetime.
So let me say before we part,
So much of me,
Is made of what I learned from you.
You'll be with me,
Like a hand print on my heart.
And now whatever way our stories end,
I know you have re-written mine,
By being my friend...
Like a ship blown from its mooring,
By a wind off the sea.
Like a seed dropped by a sky bird,
In a distant wood.
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you,
Because I knew you,
I have been changed for good.”
― Stephen Schwartz, Wicked: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
