New Hampshire.
My past excursion was up to the fine countryside of New Hampshire with the cycling club from PSU. It was a crazy experience, since it was 10 hours EACH WAY. We stopped once on the way home, which turned out to be a bad thing. My hamstring was so sore from the mountain biking and sitting cramped up in a van, my butt was extremely angry with me. It was as hard as a rock Monday, which wouldn’t be a bad thing… it just involved a lot of pain.
I have been spending a lot of time in my head lately. It has been really good to reflect on these past few months, and what I am hoping to see in the next few. I am surprised at the ‘freshness’ I now see State College with - since I have admitted to staying and relaxing and stopped lusting after people’s situations in other places, I have become… happy.
Thats’s right. Not that I am becoming complacent with my situation or becoming uninspired or saying ‘all is right with the world,’ but simply saying, “Yes. This is where I am supposed to be right here, right now.” I haven’t given up on my dreams of Africa and NYC or trying to get to all seven continents, but I am content to say that God has me tight, and he knows my heart.
These are the simple things that I have forgotten over the past few years. The simple love that is made so available to us, we often try to make it so much more complicated than it really is. Simply, so sweetly simply, we are loved, and he has us right where he wants us.