August Reflections

The Summer of 2009 is slowly coming to an end. I realize that for the past couple of years, at the end of every summer I seem to go into a reflecting mode. Summer slows things down a little for me and forces me to process the overwhelming goodness of God. August of 2007 I was looking back on a whirlwind of a year. God had taken independent, business-clothes-wearing, power-lunches-eating me out of my comfort zone and planted me smack in the middle of hourly-wages-earning, bus-riding student life. The colors, sounds and bright lights of Bangalore city had been replaced with the quietness of Dayton, Ohio. Fast forward one year, I was a number-crunching, wedding-planning fiancee, wrapping up grad school and putting as much of India and Texas as possible into a Nashville wedding. This summer, I'm a kitchen-counter-sanitizing, home-decorating housewife. What a change in the life of 'free and single' Hannah! I used to love the single life and now I love being a wife. They are both fun and wonderful in entirely different ways.

At the end of every August reflection I come to the same conclusion: I'm living under the kiss of heaven! This Darlene Zschech song has been my life song ever since I became a Christian a few years ago.

I'm walking a new walk
I'll never be the same again
Dancing a new dance
In your Holy Spirit rain
Your breath of life has overwhelmed me
And set my spirit free

I'm living a new life
Underneath your morning star
Running a new race
In the shadow of your love
Your love is immeasurable
Too deep to comprehend

I'm singing a new song
In the presence of the King
Giving you my heart
That is all that I can bring
You lit a fire inside of me
That I thought would never burn again

My Jesus, dream maker
My Jesus, life giver
I'm living under the kiss of heaven
And I'll never, ever be the same again