My brain feels kind of fried right now. For the past couple of months a major writing assignment has required most of my mental energy, so none of my blogs have been seeing a lot of activity. I look forward to Sunday mornings as a dedicated time to write here, but I’m sitting here sort of in la-la land. It isn’t that there isn’t stuff on my mind–the conversation from the previous blog post still actually weighs pretty heavily on my soul, but that’s not something I want to address with my brain only running on two cylinders. Besides, on that issue, right now it’s probably more of a time to listen than to talk, anyhow. So all this aimless rambling is to say that I really don’t have anything profound to discuss right now. 🙂 So I’ll redeem the moment by just giving a quick update.

Doing quite well overall. Thanks for asking. 🙂
Seriously…besides having my nose to the grindstone with the aforementioned writing assignment (for at least one more week)… when I look at my world right now, things are actually coming into place. Not that we’re without problems (is anyone, really?), but I think our family is in a good place overall, and on a good path. I think that it really is about more than just changing our location (although that has had a lot to do with it)–it’s also about changing our outlook. Each person in our family (myself, The Wild One and The Director) has kind of gone through the same process of discovery. When we strive for the day-to-day survival and make that our full focus, we end up almost like a hamster on an exercise wheel–putting out a lot of energy but going nowhere in particular. But when we start putting our attention on the bigger picture, the passions God has placed in our hearts, and what we want to do with those dreams, we start making decisions with those things in mind, not just on what to get us by in the moment–and that starts putting traction underneath our feet, so our energy actually starts taking us somewhere. I think that’s what I feel that’s different for us in this season. Things don’t always move as fast as I want them to, but I feel like there is traction under our feet. The things we’re doing, the things we’re choosing to do, are actually taking us someplace–they have significance for the future, and they’re moving us forward.
And the really cool thing about the process is that we’re seeing divine intervention with it. It’s like once we made the commitment to change our lives to pursue our God-given passions, God Himself began showing up with extra help we couldn’t have come up with on our own–opportunity handed to us, favor extended to us, extra money here and there, or something we need that just falls in our lap at the right moment. (Not as dramatic as manna from heaven, but sometimes it feels like that.)
The thing is, we didn’t see this kind of divine enablement until we made the commitment to move our lives in this direction. Were we waiting on God, or was He waiting on us? Makes me wonder. 🙂 That might be something else worth blogging about when my brain gets back to full capacity.
For that matter, looking back at what I’ve just written…maybe I had something cool to blog about, after all. 🙂

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Musician. Composer. Recovering perfectionist. Minister-in-transition. Lover of puns. Hijacker of rock song references. Questioner of the status quo. I'm not really a rebel. Just a sincere Christ-follower with a thirst for significance that gets me into trouble. My quest has taken me over the fence of institutional Christianity. Here are some of my random thoughts along the way. Read along, join in the conversation. Just be nice.