Jackson, A Great Memory

Basically everyone {all the important people} is gone from the office today. So I wore shorts = BEST. Thank the Lord for today. The husband is returning from a 9 day hiatus in Hong Kong tonight and I absolutely cannot wait. 7-1/2 days just about did me in.. so these last 1-1/2 days have been, well, semi unbearable. I don't think it's the fact that he's actually gone that's been tough, but merely the fact that our home is becoming just a house again. All of what makes it cozy is drowning in boxes. I started getting pretty emotional about it a night or so ago. Just sitting on the couch looking at the emptiness and all the memories here in Jackson, are slowly and surely being packed away.

I've lived a lot of places. Gosh, lemme see here: Portland, Little Rock, Hattiesburg, Stuart, Columbus, Starkville, & Jackson. Geez. Just a couple of those places I feel I was too young to really appreciate. Some places I've lived, on the other hand, come with some pretty painful & sad memories that unfortunately overshadow the time I lived there. And others seem to generate the remembrance of fruitful lessons learned along the way; so I guess they make for both wonderful and somewhat difficult memories. One thing to say about Jackson, is it is the first place I really feel like I was about to ground myself, apart from being around family. It was the first place I was able to establish my own home.

I have been richly and abundantly blessed by the Lord during the 3 years I've lived in Jackson. I have developed friendships with amazing godly people that will forever remain in my life, despite distance. I can see how much I've grown up. I can see the Lord's handy work and his provision over my own life- How He's protected me from things, how He's blessed me with things and taken things away, for my own growth and refining, how He's opened and closed doors along the way...He's shown me He's always faithful and works on my behalf despite my impatience and lack of trust- despite my own knowledge, He's always up to something, good. I found my husband, not quite here in Jackson, but during my life here. And I've got journal pages of proof that God cannot be stopped and will make what is supposed to be, happen, even if it seems kinda crazy and far fetched. Mountains were moved, Amen. Praise the Lord.

Jackson will always be a special reminder of a sweet season of life- that, Lord knows I don't deserve, but He was so good to bless me with anyway. July 23rd will be an emotional moving day, but the Lord has filled my cup to the top with wonderful memories made here.. and now it is time to experience a new season of His fullness and grace and love upon my life. Jackson will forever be a home to me. And I will miss it, and all the people it holds.



{our home}



{mentor/dear friend}



{Lu Lu Bugs Nap Sessions}

  

{the great MS snow}



{first date}



{great food...yes, that is an egg inside and two slices of bread on top}

 

{first job}





{sun bathing beauty}







{the engagement}



{putt putt matches lost.. love the ensemble + shoes.. such a cutie}



{our bedroom..haha, and blake's good read}

{a friend and her baby :) }

this list of pictures could go on and on..  but here's a look at what's to come:


{our new CO home}