Love Much

well, it's entirely way past my bedtime considering the full day and tomorrow's early morning, but it was a great day, following a great week and i wanted to take a minute to remember - return, in a sense, to say thanks for what's been given me.
I simply cannot say thanks enough for the people around me and how grateful I am to know them, to have them in my life loving much on someone so in need of love, and in turn wanting to love much in return. For the past month, everyday bears a similar image in my mind - one of someone that's been deep below the water's surface finally breaking through and breathing, where every breath feels life-saving. Its a feeling of coming alive, and I'm daily amazed for this feeling. I'm starting to re-learn so many things I didnt realize I'd forgotten/stopped doing/un-learned - how to love, how to care for those around me, the yearn to pray because I do care. It's been many years since I've rejoiced at the end of each day - for so many days in a row. Its been years since I havent felt the stir-crazy undertones of discontent, feeling like life can and probably will pick me up and move me. And maybe its just today, maybe it's just this moment, but for once I feel like I'm not searching. I live in a place I love. I keep meeting more and more people that I love getting to meet! And I keep getting opportunities to really get to know these people - it truly feels like a cup overflowing. And for someone whose coworker used to make me signs saying "the cup's half full" because I wouldve sworn it was half empty, an overflowing cup is a testament to grace.

What's amazing is that right now I look at my life and see an abundance of things I didnt think were possible - things I've spent years searching for, things I spent years not finding. I know I'm still on the journey; I'm really eager to see where God is taking me and what is to come.