day fourteen

Today
I'm not the girl I once was.
I'm not the girl I was three years ago.
I'm not the girl I was as a freshman.
I'm not the girl I was last fall.
I'm not the girl I was yesterday.
I am completely different
[but built on more of the same].

Whoever thought I would find
myself in Hillsdale, Michigan?
[and not just living here. find
more of who i actually am]
Whoever thought that this place
would be home? [after i swore it wouldn't be]
Whoever thought that the real answer
was me being at home with myself:
my life - my faith - my world?
Whoever thought that from now on,
I'll carry home with me, wherever I go.

If you had told me before,
I never would have believed it.
Nevertheless, now - here - today,
I'm not the girl I once was.