7 Quick Takes: Adapting, Pruning and Refining

1/ The more time that passes here in Hong Kong, the more I have to take moments to STOP.

And let reality sink in.

This is our new home!

2/ And with that passing time, also slowly comes a greater clarity around the realities of the changes in our lives. Yes, the practical changes are daily evident if you're looking for them. As I reflect on those changes,  in many ways I can see how we actually adapt so easily, we fit in to a new way of doing things, we make some adjustments in order to make things work for us...and off we go.

3/ As we start to catch up with our daily life adjustments, I find there is actually another kind of change taking place. A change that is happening in tandem, but internal.

4/ I am sitting in this sweet space of starting to see something of a story unfolding before me. Presently, I am acutely aware of the shaking up that is taking place internally. Taking me out of my life that was familiar and in many ways, comfortable, is exposing me to a potential refining and pruning process that otherwise may not have come my way.

5/ I can push against the internal work, and stay somewhat the same. Or I can be open to what God wants to do in me, in this time, in His timing.  Specifically, around my identity in people and roles. I know in my heart, that being open to it will take me to a deeper place I possibly haven’t yet tasted, and a richness is gained in that place, which is priceless.

6/ BUT it doesn’t just happen by chance. There are so many voices and distractions we face daily, hourly even, and my heart is prone to wander! If I’m not aligning my heart and life daily with the only One in whom I can find true meaning, purpose and hope, how meaningless it will all be. I need to fight for daily soul time in the only Word that speaks Truth into my life.

7/ Facebook is a voice in my life that distracts and steals time. So, I will be taking a sabbatical from it. The fact that it feels like a big decision is good enough reason to know it’s what I need to do. It’s possibly a sacrifice to give up that connection with people, having just left the closeness of so many people, but other than keeping updated with ‘people’s news’, in reality it’s bringing no greater depth to any of those relationships.  It also means these blog updates won’t find their way into your Facebook Feed for now and so if you’re still keen to keep in touch that way, then you can subscribe for email updates in the tab on the top left corner of my blog :)

I’m not sure how long the sabbatical will be, or what this means for Instagram, but for now, this is me.

P.S Im already scheming my next post on the things I love most about Hong Kong!