Embrace The adventure.

  In less than a week, I'll be on the road to start anew in Riverside, California!   In the past 7 years,  I've pretty much moved every other year to a new place. You could say that I've learned how to live light, expect change, and try to adapt quickly. I am grateful to have been able to experience so much, but I am especially grateful for how each place has changed me.     San Francisco is one of those places I've heard about, but never expected to live.  Not only is it full of rich people and expensive living conditions, but it is a city full of ambition and opportunity.  I didn't exactly give my whole heart when I first arrived here; it's never been easy for me to give my heart quickly to people.-- I'm learning.  Now that I've grown to give my heart here, it's time to start bidding farewells.  Funny how ironic life can feel.   I wanted to share a few of my favorite memories of SF: -Living with my first Vietnamese famil...

  After weeks of learning to deal with the emotions, tonight was a random reminder of just how hard it is.   Before I get into it, the past couple of weeks have been amazing. I was accepted into the ICCM (a college for ministry). I was asked to move to LA. My bosses have all been completely supportive of this decision. My subtle and random prayers have been continually answered in awesome ways. Things have felt like they've kept falling into place.   ..So, back to THE box.   I decided to organize my couple-of-boxes worth of stuff, throwing away old papers, planners, the usual pile up of unwanted objects. Then I came across THE box. The dreaded box I had packed up months ago, pushed aside, and out of mind. Inside my gut I heard a voice saying don't open it, leave it be, but I ignored it. I opened the box and there it was, two years worth of dating, engagement, and marriage memorabilia.   I've fought many internal conversations on what I should do with all...