Letting the Trip Take You

So we are several months into our travels now, there is a fall chill in the air and we have driven through roughly 26 states, literally too many to count. It was 106 degrees when we left and now I'm having to layer on clothing and I even wore my winter jacket at the beach the other day. Our time has been full and rich and beautiful and hard and difficult and frustrating and confusing, but it has all been worth it. Last week we spent lots of time with some really good friends and this week we are with more good friends. It's reminding me how important relationships are to me. We have seen some amazing sights and visited some incredible cities, but the richest times from our travels have been around tables with friends and family and going on adventures with other friends and doing life together. This is something that I crave and that I long for, spending hours with people and in community and doing life together. Whenever I'm doing this, I forget to post on social media, I forget to update my blog and I forget to do anything else because I'm just too busy living life. That's the kind of thing I really love. Getting so caught up in playing outside with kids and riding bikes to parks and catching frogs that I don't even have time to check my phone. I can feel myself getting swept up in living in the moment, savoring the moments and digesting them one at a time, not looking for the next moment, but just sitting and simmering in the one before me. 

I've started to think already about the end of this trip, and that's pretty antithetical to simmering in this moment, but it has me realizing that this won't last forever. There will be an end to what we are doing. We will go back to "regular" life and I will have a job again, I will pay bills and get mail from my mailbox and my kids will go to "real" school as they like to call it. And all of this reminds me that I really want to enjoy this while it lasts and I really want to let it take me where it wants to go. Really it's the Lord taking us where he wants us to go. Sometimes I get so caught up in my agenda, in my feelings, in my thoughts and in my opinions. I need to just stop and center back on my Guide. 

What about you? Are you living in the moment, in the future, in the past? How are you being guided? Do you need to let go and allow an area of your life to unfold without knowing the destination? I encourage you to be open to what that might be like. I'm going to keep listening and keep attuned to what is happening in me as I am letting go and fully immersing myself in what I am doing right now.