falling down on the job... thankful friday?

Busy semester + several life uncertainties = lamentable lack of blog posts.  I apologize.  Uncertainty renders it easier to batten down the hatches and exist rather than engaging in more outwardly focused acts -- like writing a blog post.  Easier, but not necessarily better.  Engagement requires trust, and trust requires one certainty: the certainty of "thy will be done."  There is a plan.  We aren't always privy to it -- at least not yet.  Our uncertainties aren't anything huge or traumatic.  Just some questions about life prioritization and the changes that might require.  Probably very good questions that will result in very good answers.  More to come later, I am sure!  

Meanwhile -- "thy will be done."  The prayer that never fails, as Father Tim says in Jan Karon's great series of Mitford books.  Good words!

And some thanksgiving, lest I get out of the habit...

* new grass poking through after some blessed rain this week!

* my lovely new nameplate on my office door

* this pretty little flower in our yard

* fun at the Oregon Trail Live event down in Salem last weekend

* Stanley the cat, and geraniums

* the first fall colors appearing on trees in the neighborhood

* the next-door neighbor's sunflowers

* good conversations with students

* crossing items off my to-do list

* opportunities

* friends and family

* a fresh haircut

* fun books

How about you?