Look around your world, pretty baby

♫ Is it everything you hoped it would be? The wrong guy, the wrong situation? The right time to roll to me. ♫
* dances in chair

After the last post and after any number of life changes, I took a hiatus from writing... pretty much anything, but I’m back and am hopefully a little more focused!

Here’s a quick list of things that have happened, leading to where I am now:

• R.A.D. class, leading to the come-to-Jesus experience that had led to the last post
• Come to me, all you who are toiling and loaded down, and I will refresh you. – Matthew 11:28
•  Being lied about and consequently, the loss of my best friend close-as-a-sister roommate
• Ongoing health issues/pain
•  Repeated bad behavior and emotionally abusive relationships, which luckily begun to turn around at least a little when I realized where it all stemmed from and with a little help from my friends 
•  The re-centering of my life and my interests, and fostering the healthy and real relationships; really focusing on some amazing people in my life 
•  Applied and landed a writing internship for the Chancellor’s office, which reignited the forgotten dream of writing and being published, and which is why I’m dusting off this blog again 
•  Applied and landed a job in Texas, which had been a goal for a couple of years or so I’d believed 
•  Uprooted my life and moved to Texas, walking away from the writing opportunity and my loved ones

And a million moments in between, moments of tears, laughter, dancing, lunches, dinners, movies, happy hours, picking flowers, moments of peace and grace and moments laying broken on the floor. (< Seriously, great article about brokenness!)

So here I am, settling into a new state, a new job, cultivating new friendship and cherishing the long-distance friends with all of my heart, dusting off old interests and being open to new ones.

I received two especially poignant good luck cards as I started this journey. I hold onto words like lifelines and find comfort in them, so much so that these cards are hanging in my office for inspiration and to remind me of the well wishes and support I brought with me. (Each card also contained a Bible verse. #heartful)

“She did not know where her heart would lead her, but she knew she had to find out.” Numbers 6:24-26

“Change in all things is sweet.” Jeremiah 29:11

Here’s to finding the sweetness and following wherever my heart may lead!

Thanks for rolling with me!