Like the Eagles

Lent is over.
We celebrated Easter yesterday, and it was an incredible, beautiful sunny day.
It was the sunniest Easter I have ever seen here. It almost always rains on Easter.
Yet, for some reason I was sad. Sad because some things in my life are fading away...
A wise, amazing woman in our church asked me how I was doing.
I said I was "adjusting to the changes in my life."
She reminded me that God is the Author of it all, that the changes are a good thing.
And it's true. So true.

Every time God takes something away from me, He fills it with something incomprehensibly better.
I know this, yet I still get sad.
   It's not a dark sadness though. It's more of a letting-go-of-things and mourning the good times I had.
There is a time to laugh and a time to cry. And I'm grateful for both things.
I don't ever stay sad for long. But that sadness, that learning to trust my God even more, for every little and big thing in my life, is a blessing in itself.

I'm not as scared as I was last year. I'm letting go much easier.
I can't wait to rise up "with wings like eagles."

Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The everlasting God, the Lord,
The Creator of the ends of the earth,
Neither faints nor is weary.
His understanding is unsearchable.
²⁹ He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
³⁰ Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
³¹ But those who wait on the Lord
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.
--Isaiah 40:28-31