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Well, here's a delightful truth that I can say out loud and actually mean:

I am content.

awake

I woke up this morning to a blanketed world of white outside my window. The rest of humanity seems to be still and sleeping. Except for my dogs and I of course. I've set the fireplace ablaze, made my latte, and plopped on the couch with my Bible, notebook, pen, and macbook. I'm keeping it quiet for as long as possible.

A Few Things:
 
I've outrightly ignored the blog world (yet again) for the past month or so because real life was happening and I didn't want it to get confused with cyberspace-fake-world-with-lots-of-words-cool-photos-poems-and-hypotheticals. I dearly love blogs and the women and men that compose them, but for heavens sake sometimes I just wonder what else these people do with their time? And if their lives are truly as magical and whimsical as they make them out to be? Because mine sure isn't. My life is messy and confusing and sometimes I want to scream in my sheets with my feet kicking the air, while other days I want to sweetly twirl to the beautiful rhythms of life on a sidewalk.

Also, I had ear surgery, meaning that my equilibrium is totally thrown off right now and somehow makes me too tired to do virtually anything (haha.. virtually, get it?).

And lastly, there's simply been a lot of big life changes this month, which I'm trying to wrap my mind around and grasp my fingers into. It seems that my usual way of handling things and understanding them doesn't really apply. I'm in unknown territory and a map has never been made for it. I'm attempting to increase my time with the Lord but have been doing an awful job at it. I'm so grateful for His grace in the matter. I know that in a few months' time, certain things will be clearer, and I may even be a fully-functioning, working adult. Until then, I will graciously take the days, one at a time, with Jesus Christ at the forefront of it all.

Here's to a new season of life.