It's A New Season

Hmmm ... just realized I've been neglecting the blog. Gotta work on that!

So, I came back to KC and started my new job. It's ok ... a steady paycheck is nice, and not being stuck in a building for 8 hours a day, every day is nice. Working part-time with no benefits has some perks!

First week was really about me learning about the inner workings of the sales environment at one of our locations. I had to go through a mountain of paper that has accumulated over the last 8 years and figure out what to keep, what to throw away. Later in the week I started learning about the reports I'll be working on, which is much more interesting than sorting paper. We'll see what else my supervisor throws my way to occupy the 6 hours a day he has me for.

School has been pretty interesting as well. I decided to drop all of my classes but one (SO glad I did this!!). It's a Cross-cultural Journalism & Mass Media course. My prof was a foreign correspondent for PBS for 12 years and has been teaching for 15. We share lecture time with students at MIZZOU (where I want to do my masters), which has provided some fun diversions in the form of technical difficulties.

As I sit in class I look around and can't help thinking that I used to be where these kids are once. So many of them are sure of the path that they're on, young and optimistic with ideals that have largely been unchallenged. I listen to their opinions and ideas and can't help wondering at where the future generations will find their hope and identity.

The longer that I sit and ponder this thought, the more I question what I'm doing to bring light and perspective to those He's placed in my life. Not just at school, but also at work.

It seems that relationship is still key.