Wrapping up

Now I feel as though I have come to the end of something important, and the hardest part is before me. The last 2 series' of posts I went through was an evaluation of what the core of my life is, breaking down my world to the barest of forms and coming out as a newborn ready to face the world with newly defined principles and a new hope. My hope is to be able to keep that spiritual framework as the centre of my focus, to build and toil and grow my life in a partnership with God and allow myself to develop. But the hardest part is realizing that the end of the building of this framework is the beginning of dwelling in the framework. The first step in a life with God that will bring excitement, beauty, sorrow and loss... but through it all, joy that I am what the Lord has made me and fulfilled that I am able to call him my friend and companion and father.
I have just finished taking a brief hiatus from writing while entertaining a guest in my household, then visiting my sister in Oklahoma. The trip was an amazing experience and such a joyful period in my life. I'm so proud of the girl! I had thought that spending two days travelling to cash in one day of visiting my sister was absolute madness. Upon my return, however, I could not be more fulfilled with my experience, the people I met and the all encompassing grace of God that left me safe, secure and blessed in my travels.

Tiffany, your brilliance is a radiance of spirit that is your trusted companion, warming a room like a heating vent. Your walk is confidence, stupefying bystanders in your wake... rather than leaving others cowed by their own perceived inadequacy you inspire others to aspire for their own self-assurance and climb to heights you yet reach for. "Join me" your character calls, "and let us reach together for the stars". To have witnessed first hand your struggle through recent years and lent ear to your pains imparts unique insight into what you have accomplished. You have become strong in adversity and patient of tongue, ripe in wisdom and unbound by if not untouched by fear. Your degree is paper but your person is proof of graduation. The world lies before you and soon you set off to conquer it. The love of your family follows you, may it lend wing to you overseas and bring you safely home.