Hiya pals and blissful Thursday!
I’m again in NYC, dwelling on an air mattress in my empty condominium for the previous few days earlier than our “for actual” transferring date to Cincinnati!
If transferring, changing 2 HVACs on the roof, Thanksgiving, and wrangling canceled furnishings deliveries wasn’t sufficient…throw in there some household birthdays and naturally, Christmas for good measure!
That’s proper, we aren’t slowing down round right here anytime quickly!
Guess what: This weekend is Steven’s BIRTHDAY! And so we’re really going to see Hamilton tonight! That was my mother and father’ and my birthday reward to him, and gosh are we excited!
I’ve seen the present as soon as earlier than with my mother when she was on the town. And Steven has by no means seen a Broadway present earlier than after dwelling right here his total life, so after all, we needed to exit with a bang and see, arguably the most effective Broadway present of all time! (Minus Aida and Depraved, after all.)
What was your favourite Broadway present that you simply’ve ever seen?
However anywho – after tonight, then we now have his birthday weekend celebration! I’m throwing him a “BYOC: BRING YOUR OWN CHAIR” celebration in his vacant condominium! His cousin goes to DJ it, I’m going to be making a number of scrumptious meals (that don’t require an oven) — and it’s going to be an incredible time!
If there’s one factor that I’ve realized since we’ve been navigating this season of transferring, and leaving this lives we’ve each constructed right here in NYC, each individually and collectively – is that, although we’ll now not be dwelling right here bodily, NYC will all the time be part of us.
And that goes for extra than simply NYC.
Our previous doesn’t simply disappear with a brand new surrounding.
You’re who you might be, regardless of the place you might be.
And who I’m has undoubtedly been formed by this metropolis, and the relationships I’ve right here. Similar to my life is additionally formed by all the things I’ve been by way of within the varied seasons of my previous, each good and unhealthy.
We take all of it with us. And the secret’s to permit the great to rise to the floor, and to let the unhealthy go, and take solely the teachings realized with you.
And I actually really feel like I’m at some extent the place, for the primary time, I really — not solely consider it — however am dwelling it.
I now not carry across the disgrace or the guilt from my previous anorexia. Jesus has freed me from that. I now not really feel the load and pang of “what might have been” had I not developed that consuming dysfunction. And I’ve lastly forgiven myself of all of the destruction I induced to — not simply my physique — but in addition the relationships with the individuals I really like most.
And there’s a lovely freedom in that: in having the ability to acknowledge what you’ve been although — acknowledge the previous, launch your self from any emotional entanglements with it, and transfer ahead, stronger and extra resilient in consequence.
There may be nothing extra lovely than a coronary heart at peace, and that’s what Jesus has given me by way of His forgiveness, redemption and style. And that’s precisely what I pray for you, too.
So anywho – that took a flip a I used to be not anticipating. 🙂
It isn’t formally time that I must skadaddle out of right here in order to not be late to the theater!
Have an exquisite, fantastic weekend. I’ll see you on Monday!
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