Writing Again

It has been a year of change for my little family of two.  After years of being a barista I let my Starbucks career go and moved into a new job.  This was actually a very hard decision for me to make.  As strange as it might sound there was a time in my life that my place of work was the only real home I had.  Life moves on though and I now have a home with a wonderful man that I love.  My old home was keeping me from being fully invested in our life.  Starbucks had taken over and it was time to refocus and find myself again. I've been able to begin to find balance once again; I've been able to start focusing on the things I love again.  I was so exhausted at my old job that I wasn't really pursuing my passions anymore- I was stagnant.  Now I'm reading again, I'm analyzing again, I'm talking my husband's ear off about song lyrics again, and most importantly I'm engaged with the things that should matter again.  There is more change on the horizon but at the moment I feel more content than I have in years.  I am able to focus on a Sunday School bulletin board now; six months ago that would have never happened. I can decide that a Saturday morning in the mountains sounds like fun without planning it out a month and a half in advance.  I can leave work at work and be myself at home.  Sure I still get stressed out- that's life.  However, I am no longer paralyzed. God used a series of workplace injuries to wake me up and get me out an unhealthy cycle.  I'm happy, I'm changing, and I'm writing again.