The past couple of weeks I have been blessed with some great quality time with my family amidst all the busyness of life. I’m still adjusting to the new job and all the things I’ll have to continue learning there, so it’s nice to have those moments to step away from all of that and get out of my head.

I’ve gotten a little writing squeezed in as well, though the spot I’m in right now is pretty slow-going because it requires a lot of structural analysis, which hampers falling into a writing flow. I know I’ve got several fun scenes to look forward to once I chisel away at this section, though, so I just have to be patient with the process.

Honestly, that seems to be the theme of my life right now. I’ve always considered myself a fairly patient person, but apparently there is a whole other level of patience God is trying to help me reach, and it hasn’t been the easiest learning process for me. I can feel him working on me though, and I’m trying to stay out of the way and let him, taking things one day at a time and reminding myself of his reassurances in Psalm 23, Psalm 138:8, Joshua 1:9, and Isaiah 41:10. It’s funny actually, now that I’ve been trying to take these passages to heart, how often I see them pop up around me, either literally in a morning devotional or Sunday sermon, or thematically in a song on the radio or quote in a book.