the world still turns when your not around...

I just returned from going to see an old friend...shes not old actually shes younger than i am but shes been my friend for many years. She has recently done two things that are life changing 1 she moved back from two years of school in Australia and 2. she became engaged. The idea of her owing money to certain people is beside the point. The traveling is where my thoughts centre for the time being, mostly because I've already debated the topic of owing money with her and her future husband, and will probably never see that $10, though my family will get an invitation to the wedding as opposed to having to bribe the security guards and bouncers she'll have hired to keep me out. but I digress... traveling - I have another friend (wow two people I call friends I'm popular now!!!) she recently flew to the continent of Africa spending time 'visiting' orphanages and teaching African teachers. and i have another friend that is going to England as part of her edumacation... and a fourth friend- she is going to Jamaica for the second time soon... a fifth friend of the same name as me is currently in Thailand for a few months, and several of my friends are there as part of their edumacation It seems that many of my friends are traveling and doing different things with their lives and thus jumping in and out of my life at random...so i see some of these people every now and then or occasionally...

WHERE THIS IS ALL GOING?:
For years I was that guy that jumped in and out of peoples lives. I spent two years traveling to places such as Africa and Peru and England...coming home for weekends and holidays (and all throughout may) and then another two years at school also coming home for weekends and holidays, between years of school I went off to work at camp and by now now your familiar with when I came home... after while i didn't even call home home anymore and referred to it as 'my parents house' or 'that place where my parents live and i store my stuff'...I miss that life, life is easier when your only in one place for no more than a week or just come home for weekends.
You don't have to worry about things that are happening in the long term because you'll be gone in two days, elections, snowstorms, all can be filed under 'topics for conversation later'
A social life is easy to find because you haven't been in town for so long people generally want to see you and will do their best to make time for you from there busy lives. When you do go out you can be any one you want to be and don't have to worry about the fall out/fall back because your leaving and will nine times out of ten never see some of the new people you met again. (can some body say 'run on sentence'!)
Money is usually provided for you because you've been at school or without money for a while and need some cash to get through the weekend or holiday etc.
like I said life is easier -there are down sides to said/described life but i only wanted to mention one
the down sides is that life has continued for the friends you see occasionally, a lot of times there different people entirely, and because you weren't there for anything that they went through you can't speak into their lives very much(if at all) I always forgot that 'the world still turns when your not around' (that's where they get the name of the post from)

During my two years of school I went to Thailand as part of my edumacation, one of the staff that went with wrote me a letter at the end of the year. All the seniors got one from a different teacher/staff. Mine contained many encouraging statements like 'thanks for modeling humility'(have you read my book?)
At the end he wrote a verse that he thought applied to me and etc. (i just discovered this letter in one of my drawers and reread it thus the reflection about it) Philippians 4:11-13: 'Not that i ever was in need, for I learned how to get along happily whether I have much or little...learned the secret off living in every situation...For I can do every thing with the help of Christ who gives me the strength I need'
A REFLECTION ON MY LIFE THAT'S WHERE!:
This is what I'm trying to model again, (apparently I did it before) I do long for traveling and things like from that life again...but i know that God has brought me home for a time and i should be content with where i am and who I am. I hope that i can learn again to be more contented. Perhaps i should list off things that I enjoy about life and reason why I am glad to be where I am. (I'm popular and smart!) any ways God keeps working on me and changing me and that verse -though I apparently modeled it well- still continues to challenge me as i move through life. Like i said in the beginning (of the blog, not specifically this post) 'I'm not all done yet'
that seems like a good ending but I feel I have more to say...I hope that as a i stay here longer and join a church body or two and get reconnected with old friends and make some new ones i can become content...(probably just in time to move on again)
... all righty then
...at last there is nothing left to say
Until next time
Can't say it hasn't been fun....
-luKe