One Year in Colorado

One Year in Colorado

{Estes Park, Rocky Mountain National Park}

A post like this is sort of hard to start. 

You wonder, where you should begin? 

Do you start with the five years ago when you heard from God that life was going to drastically change for you very soon?

{Zoey & I on our Maple Sugaring weekend trip w/friends, March 2010}

Do you start three years ago when you wondered when "Drastic" was going to start?

{the amazing group of exchange students we hosted, and fell in love with that year}

Do you start two years before you left, when you painted, and purged your home in anticipation for a great move? Do you write about the 5 garage sales you held, or the many, many trips to the Salvation Army with so many things you once held precious, but are now nothing but a nuisance and hindrance to getting where you need to go?

Do you start one year ago when all of your closest friends and family gathered at your home to help load up the little 6x12 trailer that was to hold all of your earthly possessions, hitched to the back of your vehicle? 

Do you chronicle the journey across the country, through 8 different states, stopping for 2 days to visit family, and then only for the most important of site seeing? 

or

Do you start when you arrived in Colorado, racing against time, arriving at midnight, barely moments ahead of a nasty snow and ice storm that would hit only moments after you arrived?

Do you start when you moved into your new apartment?

When you attended your first church service, which, BTW is the whole reason you moved to Colorado?

When you closed on the house back in NY and no longer had a mortgage payment half the cost of your rent?

When you interviewed for a job that one week later you would start? 

At what point in the Journey is it the actual {Starting Point} ?

I suppose... My next blog post should be about our year here in Colorado!