True Colors

There's been a lot of changes in my life since I last posted at Christmas...new job, first grandbaby born, new and unfolding perspectives on myself and the world:
1. I'm old enough to be a grandmother, and that is wonderful!
2. Being an associate pastor in a BIG church is very different (so far) than being a co-pastor in a tiny church...and that's okay too.

Both being a grandmother and being an associate pastor in a big church may seem like very different worlds...maybe they should be the stuff of different blogs, but they are right now my true colors. I'm learning and growing in each of the new roles.

I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to discern what my "true colors" are...as if God has created a unique path that leads to fulfillment, but camoflaged it to keep it from being easily found. Lately it's felt like it was camoflaged very well.

But, it strikes me that maybe the task is more to see the possibilities of the present here and now, and create of them true colors in my own life. Maybe that's the task...at least in later life when I've become more picky and preferential. (I can see the "downside" of way more things in way more ways than when I was 20!)

Maybe my divine traveling companion is heaving a heavy breath and saying, "Wait, let's just slow down a minute and take a rest. Let's notice what's here before we miss it. I'll bet we can find some pretty amazing things." So, I'm trying that.

(Did you know just how many faces a 2 month old baby can make in 15 minutes?!)