Looking back on the year, I can only say: He is so good and so faithful. Wordle says the rest.

Been reading a lot of Oswald Chamber’s lately and I give this a resounding high-five and my own parenthesized commentary:

“Joy means the perfect fulfillment of that for which I was created and regenerated, not the successful doing of a thing… we have all to find our niche in life (word, yo), and spiritually we find it when we receive our ministry from the Lord. (how?) In order to do this we must have companied with Jesus; we must know Him more than a personal Saviour…if you have received a ministry from the Lord Jesus, you will know that the need is never the call: the need is the opportunity. The call is loyalty to the ministry you received.”

I moved all of my belongings to San Francisco this past Wednesday– say whaaat. I left Urbana and my home of 4 years, tempered with unspeakable growth, deep friendships, comfortable relationships, and I am in blindingly sunny California, surrounded by lush foliage, delicious food, and people only over the age of 40. Huh?

True story: My life has been a series of logical, safe “next-steps” with an occasional side adventure.

New story: That’s over. Now, there are many logical next steps and many… next steps. I could skip a step, walk in place, or throw myself down the stairs– all feasible, all not necessarily bad, and all over-metaphored.

But as tempted as I am to flag, stop drop and roll over and sizzle with this step into a very temperate skillet of entertainment/media industry and law school, I hear the call of loyalty to persevere and hope with full assurance. His Word getting pretty dang sweet at the tip of my tongue– encouraged and drinking as much of it as I can.

Stayin’ loyal. Stayin’ joyful. Stayin’ faithful.