A letter to a friend.

The roller coaster of life has leveled off for now and I can see you looking around.  Do you get off? Is it a peak coming up? Or are you headed for a fall? I'm glad to see you unsettled, I have a feeling you weren't designed for the humdrum life and yet my heart longs to surround you with comfort and fun.  So I wanted to encourage you on this level ground because I have no doubt that there are mountains to come, and my word for you would be formulation.  Formulation of confidence, responsibility, experience, adaptability, the softening of the heart that comes with understanding loneliness, the strengthening of the heart that is expectant of change.  With every season I get to see you grow and develop who you are.  But my message isn't of growth, important though it is, but of affirmation of who you are.  You desire to make the Lord proud and I'm jealous of that but if you could stand in my shoes you would see, that you already do by who you are; the influence of your love, frustrations, thinking and creativity. My favorite thing is that you are fun, and I find fun goes a very long way, to brighten corners is a ministry in itself. 

So now I come and go and your life is different to mine, and there are parts that I don't understand.  But my heart is with you in the transition stage, and know I'm excited with you for now and for what is to come.