Move Forward...Keep Writing

My last post was made amid the dreaded epidemic of 2020.  I just realized that.  At first glance, it would seem that Covid was the reason I stopped writing but this isn’t the case.  I was never terrified of Covid and I didn’t lock down.  I actually took several cross-country trips during the lock-down period.  The truth is, in January, before Covid hit we had made the decision to leave the Midwest again.  I was struggling with cold, solitude and grief and I was drowning really.  Not ones to ever sit in our misery, we decided to make a change. 

The plan was to move back to the Pacific Northwest if a door opened up for us.  With a more mild climate, a community of people we already know and love and less visits from the ghosts of my past it seemed a good place to try again.  A door did open and we moved our farm for the third time.  I didn’t document this move, though I wish I would have.  A conservative family moving during Covid from South Dakota to Washington?  That was interesting.  It was messy, painful and honestly, a little overwhelming moving to a place that was so characterized by fear but the Lord met us in the details and we made it through.

Quite a few things were written these past two years and it seems to me I have more opinions now that ever before.  Maybe one day I will share some of them, but then again maybe not.  For now, I feel my heartstrings being tugged to write.  Move forward and keep writing…that’s my plan.  

Walking forward with you~The Mrs.