Initium (Beginning)
New beginnings are always strange to me. Exciting, maybe a little scary, oozing with anticipation of what a new opportunity or circumstance or relationship could hold in its unknown depths. Starting this blog is one of many new beginnings for me. Like many others, the year of 2020 was definitely not what I expected it to be, and I've put a lot of expectation into this new year being different. My goals for the year all center around discipline and maturity, as my bachelor's degree draws to a close this semester and I begin to prepare for the transition to grad school. I'm trying to figure out career plans and housing situations and finances and relationship dynamics and a half dozen other nuanced situations going on in my life right now. It's a lot. With so many things up in the air, in the midst of all this uncertainty I see an opportunity: to lay aside my tendencies to panic and to fearfully overanalyze the future, and just trust the One who holds my life in the pa...