Starting new

For those of you who have stumbled across this blog, welcome! I am pleased to invite you a little closer (maybe closer than some of you want to get) into my life. I am beginning many new endeavors and am pleased to get the chance to share with you, my reader, the joys and triumphs in my life. Like every other normal person, life gets complicated. I said it, complicated. It's a thick word to swallow, and even sometimes, has a rather loaded meaning. Overall, I'm pretty simple. I live a good life with a great job, a loving family, and the best friends anyone could hope for. I look up to many, and love with my whole heart. I follow the Lord and will be a graduate of college in less than a year and a half.

So what?

I have been blessed with more, and with more opportunities, then some get in a life time. Before my twentieth birthday.

In December, I made a huge choice. I made the choice to move home. Things got hard where I was living in California. I felt stuck, sick, and uncomfortable.

I leaped.
I took all of my opportunities in my hand, and ran.
I ran to where I was happy, comfortable, and unconditionally loved.

Ran sounds bad. Ran has a negative connotation. I for once in my life, made a move for me. Doing what I needed to do.

My life changed in November though. Things started to turn around, and the Bri that got lost in the rubble and baggage of my fall started to come out. I was renewed, and I had become a different, but better person.

I started singing in the shower. In the car. I started dancing around the kitchen. The light that I needed came to me with God in a way I have never known.

So what?

So now, I am home. I am in my beautiful home. With my beautiful family. I think about Chico every day. I could write a whole separate post about Chico and the friends that I made, and the friends I grew closer with, in my last two months there. I could write about my church, my home church. I have a hard time wanting to be two places at once, I always have. But I have such a beautiful life, in both places. That's just it. Who is lucky enough to say that?

While all of this seems like random blabble, this is me introducing my life to you as it is now. I am in the absolutely gorgeous Pacific Northwest, waiting for my next move. I'm growing in faith; growing into the person I want to be. I am going to write about my life so that I can understand it, too. Or try. It's different everyday, and I have new experiences, everyday.

This is for all the awesome stories from both homes. From here, from there, and from all the places in between.
If you are a friend from Chico, hopefully this will give you a better look at what I'm doing here in Washington. And if you're a friend from Washington, maybe this will give you a better look at where I've been lately.

My heart bursts for each one of you that have been a part of my life. You have to know that!

Ahh. What fun it is to ramble.
Time for bed, and a fresh new day. Goodnight to you!
-Bri