life moves on...

I can't sleep tonight. I've been meaning to write a blog for some time, so maybe this is just meant to be. I finished grad school. What an emotional roller coaster that final week was. First there were our problems with housing, then came a fiasco with my grades, then came some really bad news about salary prospects. The day before graduation I felt like a person who had embarked on a long, goal-directed journey only to discover that it was all relatively pointless. I felt only resentment, worry, and frustration.

But things change. At baccalaureate, we graduates heard a speaker who delivered a message of utmost relevance. Wait on the Lord. My ears heard it, my heart embraced it, and all of a sudden, the fact that I didn't have everything figured out seemed ok. God's plans happen. God's purposes are not in jeapordy. When I walked across the stage to receive my diploma, I felt a sense of accomplishment, and for that I was, and am, very grateful.

The Lord has provided. We have an apartment and I have a job. The situations are quite good, all things considered, and within a week's time we'll have hopefully adjusted to both. We'll be moving on Saturday, leaving the first real home of our marriage. This apartment has served us well. It was our space and we'll miss it.

B. continues to expand and the baby's heart is thumping at approximately 130 beats per minute according to the latest check-up. I love her already. The pregnancy seems to be progressing both quickly and slowly, if that can be believed. I suppose I could say the same about the first two years of marriage.

Tonight LeBron James scored 48 points, leading the Cavs to a huge victory in double OT against the proverbial Eastern Conference favorite Pistons. It used to be Jordan doing that. But now it's LeBron. Everything changes; in the slow, event-filled blink of time's eye.