And we'll say hello as you're smiling in love...

Savannah

You hold my hand like it's the first time / and all the feelings that our hearts find

will be just what we expect

I spent four hours reading in the park today after church. Church was great. I need to update on some of the 'more spiritual' things I have been feasting upon :), soon.

"Life of Lindsay", "Lindsay's Own Life", "Lindsay's Life-Story"... anything like that. Someone asked me how things were going for me, now... if my life had taken on the sense of a new story, one that belongs to me...it has! I realize that my life is not glamorous, but it might as well be, it is so beautiful. Even the hard parts are worth enduring, because I know that God is faithful and I feel God's presence and living in my own life so constantly that all I have to do is turn back every one of these blessings (which often are trials and tests) back to praise. Yep, I just paraphrased that song. I sure did... didn't see THAT one coming.

This weekend has been a blur, and so fantastic. I would like to take the opportunity to thank my chaplain for loving Savannah so much that not only would she name her first born Savannah, but would recommend that I call for a job opening down here, over a year ago today.

Thank you, Savannah, GA, for being so patient and waiting for me to discover all of the little things that make you so grand. I love the little things: the weather during fall, my church family, my own back yard, living so close to the water and the beach, Forsyth Park, Lake Mayer, downtown in general, HomeGoods and any other shopping need, closer to friends and family, and the new people I have met and for all those I have yet to meet. Thank you for being a place I can make home, for now, and not just another tour of a city with gift shops :). Thank you for sun sets in a park full of people to watch after sauntering down the streets full of foreigners; for while I am still learning and finding out, I am no longer one of them :).

Thank you, family, for still calling every day, if not more, to keep my heart close to yours even though we haven't actually lived together or spent more than a few days together in years.

Thank you, God, for how you have been making me more faithful, and just... changing me to be better, to be more like you. Don't stop. :).

Love,

Lindsay

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As a side-note-insight into the life of someone who uses a Blackberry:

My LED light plays tricks on me. It blinks red (all the time) when I have a notification of some sort. However, some times (many times) I see the reflection of something in it, and think it is the red light blinking. It just happened, like three times in the time it took me to type this sentence. When that happens, instead of running my battery down like crazy bringing the screen back to life, my LED light and I go into this little stare-off kind of thing. I think I see something, and my head jerks automatically to the phone, just... staring... suspiciously, waiting for it to blink (or not blink). The worst thing about this is, I think it is an obsession.I can handle HEARING a notification, and not checking it immediately. I LOVE that I figured out how to turn off my email notifications. However, when that little red light gets to flashing, I MUST check it. It really gets awful when someone ELSE that I am interacting with has a Blackberry, and their LED light is blinking constantly. I have NO idea why this gets me. It doesn't bother me, or make me upset in anyway... but I feel a ridiculous desire to check whatever messages I'm being reminded of because of this silly LED light. The End.