Lately.

Hi. How’s it going? Hope the New Year is treating you well so far. As you may or may not know, I have been working on getting my Masters in Professional Counseling. Well, I am taking this semester off. Scheduling issues. Looks like it’s gonna take me a little longer to complete. I know you might be thinking, “Haven’t you been doing that a few years now?” Yeah, I think I can graduate before the end of this decade we just started. Give me a break, I work full time and it’s a 60-something hour program. So, now I am finding I have free time on my hands, which is kinda crazy for me. Usually, I spend my weekends buried in psych books but not this semester. Now, I have time to write again, which is why you are currently reading this. (Thanks for reading buy the way. I know there are other ways you could spend 10 minutes.)

Usually, I try to tell some story and relate it to some lesson I have learned from God in hopes that you can take some nugget of wisdom away but not today. Today, I just wanted to write an update about things going on in my life and some things God has taught me lately. (if you happen to learn anything positive from what God has taught me, then great. so this actually may end up being like something I usually write.).

First of all, my 1st published article comes out in about a month or so. It totally came out of no where. I have been writing and rambling for a few years now and have never been professionally published. I even wrote a book, which I could not get picked up. And then, out of no where a friend/magazine editor asked for some pieces. I sent some but didn’t hear anything for about 4 months. I just assumed my stuff sucked and they had read better literary pieces on the stalls in public restrooms. But then I got the call, or e-mail I should say. So I guess the lesson I learned is to never count God out. I prayed and prayed and prayed for something to happen with my writing and it never did. It is great when someone tells you that they learned something from something you wrote, but getting something published was something I needed to do. After a while, I felt like maybe God didn’t want it to happen. And after a lot of complaining on my part, I came to accept that. But I wasn’t going to completely stop writing because it is an ability God has given me. And I kept on. And out of no where He surprised me and showed me He is faithful. I’m not saying He’ll answer your prayer to win the lottery or anything like that (He hasn’t answered that one for me yet), but He can be trusted. And to trust God means to follow Him even when He doesn’t answer all your prayers.

And then there’s the whole taking off this semester thing. Yes, it is putting me behind on when I plan to graduate. Yes, I wished it wasn’t happening. You ever have something like that happen? Where things are running smoothly and then all of a sudden, Wham-o. Delayed. Life On-hold. I guess I could sit here and whine and complain about how I gonna be behind now. About how my brain might get rusty or something because I am not taking classes. I’m trying my best to be positive about it. It’s going to be nice to read for pleasure for a few months. It will be relaxing not to have papers and tests to worry about for awhile. And I am saving the money I would have spent on tuition. Sometimes God likes to bring us to a place where we are kind of on hold. Maybe He knows that we need the rest, or maybe there’s another reason. But I believe He brings us to these places because He knows what’s best for us at every moment in our life.

That’s really all that’s been going on in my life lately. That and me still being single. But that’s a whole other post entirely. Sorry for the long post; it’s been a while. Til next time. Happy twenty-ten.