After the Storm

One year ago I sat in my car, drove up and down Gulf Blvd, and listened to "After the Storm" twenty times. Yeah, it sounds like a scene from Dawson's Creek or something, but that is how I spent my last night in St. Pete. Alone, with my thoughts. 
Some how in the summer months I lost myself. I forgot who I was, I forgot what I believed in, and I forgot what I was doing with my life. I was at one of the lowest points in my life, and I was on the eve of a major change and move; and I had forgotten who I was. 
One year later, tonight, I sat in my car and drove up US 19 with my dad, on our way to Walmart to buy Emperors New Groove. I put that CD in the stereo, knowing that I wanted to listen to that song only. 
I can't exactly explain how I felt, but I did feel a surge of emotion. That girl sitting in that car, listening to that song was very different from that girl exactly one year ago. I don't even know that girl anymore. And it amazes me how much God can put into motion in one year, I am amazed at how God's grace can drastically change us, I am amazed that after everything He is still faithful. 

So for all of you packing up, moving out, going back; enjoy this song, enjoy this moment. Because you'll blink, and everything will be different.

"Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything is different?"

C.S. Lewis

After the Storm - Mumford and Sons