Something I´ve learned in my short little life is how much can change in one day. Be it for better or for worse…it doesn´t always take long for it to happen.
Something I´m still learning in my short little life is how long it takes for other things to change. Be it for better or for worse…it doesn´t always happen overnight.
February 11th marked the first six months of this chapter in Spain. After six long hours on a plane to get here, suddenly six short months have happened in this new home. I feel that I´ve lived here a LOT longer than just a hundred and eighty days: I feel the 4,380 hours as a little closer to home. It´s amazing how many things have changed so fast: I moved countries. I moved languages. I moved colleges. I moved communities. I moved—inside and outside. Vacation, classes, courses, retreats, Christmas, exams, crosses, joys, exhaustion, excitement, adventures big and small… six months ago I was pretty much a different person.
On the other hand, I still have that loooong list of not-so-perfect things about myself that seems to NEVER. GET. SHORTER. From completely learning this new language to not reacting so much like that, or thinking more like this… Some of those things will probably be stuck on that list for a good while yet, while I can see (or hope) that others are metamorphosing one slow inch—even millimeter—at a time.
There´s another part to that long list, and it also doesn´t seem to get much shorter. It´s a list that is deep inside of me somewhere, that I´m discovering little by little each day: the gifts God has given me—as ME. That although I never imagined it, I actually can do this; although evidence may be few and far between, I am progressing in that.
The things that changed so fast on the outside have also changed a whole lot on the inside. I´ve discovered a lot about myself, both gifts to limitations. Whether it´s moving fast or slow, I´ve learned a lot in these six short months.
…or were they long?
