Fear of the Unknown

The days come and go so quickly I meet myself coming and going. The monotony of my daily life is like a scratched record playing the same part of a tune over and over. The needle, stuck in it's rut. A tempo change is on the horizon. Within the next few months many things will change in my life. The scratch in my life's record will skip forward and the music will then continue. What tune will I hear? Will I like the melody? Will it have an upbeat tempo, to which I will learn a new step? Or will it be a melodramatic sonata causing my cheeks to burn with tears?

My nest will be empty. My priorities will shift. I delight in the possibilities that await me. I cry as the pain of letting go of this life I have grown so accustomed to will be ripped from my being. I will become a new person. Who will I be? Will I like this person? Who is she? I am anxious to meet her, but at the same time I am scared to death of her. It will be like getting to know a stranger.

I hope that with my new life comes a desire to study God's Word more, to nurture relationships, to read more, to travel more, to take more pictures.......to, well, live more.

Lord, thank you so much for all the many blessings of my life thus far. I am so excited to step into this new phase of my life with Your leading. I pray that you will bless and keep me and those reading this now. In Your Holy Name, Amen.

They say the fear of the unknown can kill you. I know it will not kill me, as my Lord and Savior is right beside me. He will take my hand and lead me into this next phase in my life.