It seems to be a lazy Wednesday afternoon in beautiful Southern California.  I say lazy, but maybe its really me who is lazy.  Or procrastinating.  Both probably apply.  I do have to say in my defense that I actually completed another five page paper today-seems like I write a lot of those these days.  Comes from being a student, I hear.  I don't remember undergrad being that way, but then again, as an architecture major my days were spent drawing and gluing my fingers together.  

What exactly am I putting off at the moment?  Welllllll, I now need to complete a job application.  There's just something I dread about job applications.  They seem innocuous enough, but there's scariness lurking...  Okay, it's not the application that is the problem, its what it represents:  change.  Will I like working at a new job?  More importantly, will I like the people I'm with?  How does this affect the future, my relationships, my time...  Change.  Shouldn't be scary, and it really isn't that:  its the possibility of leaving my comfort zone.  Maybe God has let me be comfortable for a goodly chunk of time now, protecting and nurturing me...  Now perhaps its time to get back out there in the real world after this time off.  I'm grateful for the blessings of this past school semester.  Whatever God is bringing my way I'm sure it will be something to grow and mature me-God style.  And so I'm off to persevere with what is coming up in my life, I think it starts with a certain job application today!  

"Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."  James 1:4