Everything Is Different

I started a new song one year ago at staff training for camp. The song was about how everything felt so different inside me, but on the outside it all looked the same. I was the same girl, working at the same camp, with many of the same friends, yet it all felt TOTALLY different. I felt like a new person after encountering God at M-dub. I felt like I had a new heart as love was beginning to form and grow inside. I felt new.

Now, one year later, it all feels new again. It all feels different. One year ago, my brother and I were both in fairly young relationships and enjoying the sweetness of falling in love. Now here we are, with only a few days before he is getting married to "his Naomi." My brother has forever been my "favorite person in the world," and best friend.

The Lord is so kind to me to let me say goodbye to my brother while standing beside my new best friend. I know it will be good. I am really excited to wave goodbye as they drive off for Alaska and start the greatest adventure of their life -

"Everything is different
Nothing feels the same
It's gloriously changed.

My heart sings a new song
I hum a different tune.
My heart sings of you.

Chorus:
Everything has changed,
nothing feels quite the same.
But I wouldn't have it any other way.
Yes I wouldn't have it any other way.
Change you can stay.
Love remain.

Same frame, but with a new picture inside.
My heart is filled with light,
where love has come to life. "