I love this picture. It is by no means perfect. I tried to focus on the flowers and the mountains are blurry, and then when I focused on the mountains the flowers are blurry.

I’ve felt like this in life before.

When I am so present I cannot seem to picture the future, but when I focus too much on the future then it is difficult to be in the present.

What is the balance?
What is balance in anything really?

“Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance you must keep moving.”

Albert Einstein

Do we really have a choice though?
Life moves on whether we choose to or not. School ends. Seasons change. Life changes. We don’t fit into our old molds. Our old identity. You are not who you were in high school. We have shed those labels and grown into different ones.

This season of life has been very different from the others. I’ve spent my whole life in school, surrounded by people in the same season of life I was in.

All of a sudden, school is over and you’re thrown into the “real world.”

Life changes and you have to figure out who you are now.

Well, post World Race I have moved in with a family friend connected by our angel Laura in heaven.

My “label” is a nanny, but it has been so much more. They have opened up their home oozing with love, joy and peace. They have welcomed me into their family and mentored me in many different ways. Only Jesus could have ordained such a perfect match.

I am in the interim.

Things are fuzzy.

My label is not “nanny.”

Who I am is not a Pope Greyhound, Cheerleader, Young Life Leader, Exercise Science major, Georgia College Bobcat. Missionary, nor World Race Alum.

Those are all things that I have done. Organizations I have been a part of. Those things are not my identity.

My identity is in Jesus Christ.

My label is daughter of God.

Chosen.

Loved.

My flesh wants to slap on a different label. To justify this season, but I know in my heart the Lord has me exactly where He wants me.

And I don’t need to justify it to those around me.

I don’t have to justify it to myself.

So, I’m laying down my justifications and owning this season.

I will not waste the waiting.

And my prayer is that wherever you are, you are consistently present while simultaneously dreaming about the future.

Life moves forward whether we decide to hop on the bicycle or just drag along side it.

Wake up.

Dream.

And enjoy the ride.