i'm leaving to let you go.

today i'm a little blue. i'm back in alabama. i love birmingham. i love beeson. i love christmas time. i love a good victory over clemson.  it just all seems a little...depressing, because i can't love these things while i'm with the people i love.  i miss my family. i miss my friends from college. i miss having all the answers to life.

so, it's rainy, and i'm blue...but, here are some good things to remember:

• it's almost december, and i really do love christmas time, complete with lights and trees and advent calenders.
• i love my family. and i love that my family is okay with the fact that i'll probably never live in rutherford county--that they accept this and still love me for who i am.
• i'm so blessed to have friends all over, and to be an excellent manager of long distance relationships--even if those are sometimes difficult to maintain. 
• i love my macbook. i'm not materialistic, but i really do love it. 
• i love some good christmas music--brad paisley, michael buble, relient k, church music, music at hanging of the greens, music at glorious...and some pandora.
• i love the way a room looks when the lights are dim and a candle is lit.
• i love that i'm almost finished with my first semester of seminary.
• i'm so blessed--to have been able to finish college, and now go to graduate school, and have a job, and a church family, and friends in the area, and the splawns...i'm blessed.

so in the meantime...

i want you to know

i'm leaving to let you go

someday we'll walk upon the streets of gold.