Tumble Weeds

 It's been a long while since I typed anything up last, and to be honest I thought about just starting a new blog. Trouble is at the end of the day my style and my theme hasn't changed and I'm just another life that you may be choosing to follow and listen to and so I've decided to just pick up where I left off. 

There's been lots going on in the past 5 or so years, this year I realized I've been crossing my bucket list off and I've got 1 thing left. I made plans to check that off several years ago, but plans were derailed and instead it was time to be patient. Though about checking it off in the spring but didn't think it was going to be able to pull it off so I decided I'd take the summer to wrap things up here and to get my bus packed & moved. Now I'm excited to say I'm moving to the Yukon within the month! Still lots to sort out, but I'm wrapping up my Life Coach Certificate on Monday, I'm doing some final see-ya-later's and I'll be on my way to the North. The final task on my bucket list. I guess it's time to start working on a new one.... 

Now what does a journey to the North have to do with Tumble Weeds? Well let me tell you. 

This weekend I had the opportunity to join one of my Pathfinder clubs at their Pathfinder Sabbath. As they often do, they share the origin & meaning behind their club name. This time it got me thinking back to my pathfinder days when we held a meeting specifically to change our club name. The old Mariposa is a great name, but we had a club full of boys & tom boys who just couldn't get excited about being named after a flower... So we all sat down and tried to come up with a cool new name to present our new club as. In the end we came up with Tumble Weeds committed to going wherever God blows us. It wasn't until recently I realized how strongly that motto had become engrained in me. 

When I committed to teaching it was because I prayed God would send me my next adventure... Teaching is not my calling... but Teaching is definitely where He called me to go at that time. 

We were singing "I'll go where you want me to go Dear Lord..." in church one day, and I hate singing songs without truly meaning the words, and so I said a special prayer letting him know I really meant it... well He decided I needed to change seats in the middle of church and go sit with a stranger. I don't know if the stranger needed someone to sit with that day, but I know it was humbling to remember God doesn't always ask us to go to the ends of the earth for Him, sometimes He just wants us to sit with someone new. 

Well it seems it's time to go North. I've been praying to go for years, anyone who knows me I'm sure can believe that or even confirm that. but until now I know it hasn't been the time. I don't know what adventure awaits. People keep asking what's up North. All I've got to tell them is "finishing up my childhood bucket list." maybe God's letting me go because He's tired of hearing me complain about the heat, or maybe He knows I just need to get it out of my system so I'll start praying for something new. Whatever His reason for finally lining things up for me, I know He's got a plan and it's going to be a great adventure. Because God works all things together for good. And I pray that my life can be as simple as a Tumble Weed, willing to go wherever God leads me.