Singing A New Song

So many thoughts and so little time to process them.  I'll do my best here though since this is a good outlet for me to start processing where I've been and where I'm going.

I'm participating in this lovely lady's Scripture memory challenge for 2013, and it serves as the basis for some of the thoughts I'm processing about the New Year, the move, etc.  The idea is to choose a Bible verse to memorize on the 1st and 15th of the month.  I participated in this challenge back in 2011 and it was such a good thing for me.  I didn't retain all 24 verses that I memorized, but I did remember more than I knew at the beginning of the year.  It was a good exercise to practice filling my mind with spiritual thoughts from God rather than complaints, worries, etc.  And since I feel this blog has become somewhat of a downer lately with all my sad posts about moving (such has been my life too), this challenge came at a good time.


The verse I chose for the first two weeks of January is: "Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth." Psalm 96:1 NIV 

It's a short verse, but it's sort of going to become my theme verse for the year, I think.  With the start of the New Year, I always have ideas of what I hope to accomplish and how I hope to live.  With the move coming so quickly after the New Year, it is so vividly clear to me that 2012 marks the closing of the chapter of my life in the Mountain West and 2013 marks the opening of a new chapter in the Southeast.  It's still quite hard and emotional for me to think about basically starting our life over, and yet it's what I know God is asking of me/us.  I feel like "my song" is changing with the move.  All of the areas I was previously involved in- work, church, campus ministry, women's Bible study, etc. (all of the things that made up "my song") are going to change.  And while I can look at the change with much sadness as I have been lately, I can also embrace the change and look to the Lord to provide me with a new song. 

So I love the "new song" idea, but I also love the singing part as well.  Singing is filled with such joy and that's what I hope to convey to people in the new place as well as my family and those around me.  I'll admit I don't think it's going to be easy, but I'm going to try and sing my "new song."  And I love a short verse because the first part of January is crazy: we shipped my car out of the big city on Wednesday, movers packed up our house yesterday, they are loading the moving truck today in the bitter cold (negative temps...brr), tomorrow we pull out of our beautiful mountain valley for the last time (I'm already tearing up thinking about it), R and I are taking our time riding to Denver with DH, R and I then fly to our new town and hang out with her Godparents while DH drives 3 more days.  Our stuff will arrive a day or two after DH and then the fun continues as we begin to get settled into our rental home for the next 6 months or so.  So a short verse is good for me.  Plus, I've already been reciting it over and over, so I know it was the right choice.

I may be MIA for awhile until we get an internet connection set up at the new place.  I expect to be back to sporadic blogging by mid-January.  Just in time to share my January 15th verse with y'all, right;-)