It's been so long.
And after a long and hard-fought battle with settling into my new life, I think I've finally arrived.
College knocked the wind out of me and it took forever to catch my breath. There wasn't time for anything. My life revolved around classes, stressing about classes, possibility of failing classes (ahem Calculus...I hate it), bus schedules, bike racks, and goodness knows what else.
What my life didn't revolve around, I must tell you, is my usual Bible study times. Let me tell you now that if you're too busy for God not only are you TOO BUSY but you're also missing out. You see, if you spend time with God in the morning, God might just add time to your day. You'll feel more accomplished. You'll be more productive. Some learn the hard way.
My writing also took a hiatus, simply because...because it was hard to write and also because the closer I've gotten to Logan the more I told him instead of writing it all down. As long as someone witnessed bits and pieces of my life, be it in writing or in spoken form, I was okay.
But then I saw a movie. I won't mention which one (yet) but it totally opened a floodgate of emotion and of thinking and of just...everything. And through that experience God gave me an idea....
"I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them... but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it... ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love..."
And so it began. Finally a plot was coming together for a new book that I think God would give me enough will to write. My life is finally settling down. In fact, I'm picking out my spring semester classes tonight. It's late, but there's a reason for my being on that hiatus...I've learned so much about, just, people that I have enough material to write for the rest of my life.
I'll see how it goes.
-E.A.
