Here I Am Again (Nuevamente Estoy)

As you can see, I haven’t written in this blog for more than a year!  For some reason, I seem to think that I should only blog when I am outside of the U.S.  Not true :)  There is a lot of blog-worthy life that happens in my familiar places too!  I respect all of my consistent blogger friends :)  I am glad to commence again with my blog.  This concludes the preface to the 2013 version of this blog. 

I did a little revamping to my blog for this new step in the journey, so I want to explain the title.  It comes from a song by Jaci Velasquez (oldie but goodie).  The Spanish version of the song is called “Como una flor”.  The English name is “Flower in the Rain”.  Here are the two choruses:

“Como una flor”

Y nuevamente estoy

Lista para ser
Abierta por tu lluvia
Como una flor
Dime lo que debo hacer
Yo quiero renacer
Muy lejos del dolor
Así como una flor

“Flower in the Rain”

So here I am again
Willing to be opened up and broken

Like a flower in the rain
Tell me what have I to do
To die and then be raised
To reach beyond the pain
Like a flower in the rain

            As I begin a new step in my journey, I think about this song; the chorus plays over and over again in my head.  I don’t know if I completely grasp all Jaci means, but I’ll give my take on it :)  My scattered ponderings…As a believer in Christ, I have given my life to follow the Lord.  Where He will lead?  What I will do?  Who will I be with?  Only God knows, but He asks me to trust Him every step along the way.  Each day, in the joys and the pains, I come before the Lord, willing to be open and broken, willing to surrender all of my worries, my joys, my desires, my dreams, my sorrows, and my loved ones to God.  Only He can take care of those I love.  God knows my mind and my heart better than I do, so why do I worry about tomorrow?  The Lord is my Shepherd, who will guide me through green pastures and through dark valleys.  I cannot carry the burdens of life alone.  I come to Him, burdened and weary, and Jesus takes the burden.  Only He saves.  Only He heals.  Only He leads.  John 10:10 says, “I have come that you may have life and have it to the full.”  According to 2 Corinthians 5:17, in Jesus Christ, we are all new creations.  The old has gone; the new has come!  Throughout my all of my life, but particularly in the next six months, I pray that I will come to learn what it means to be a flower in the rain.  I'll be back soon!