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I can rarely recall a moment in the last few years where I've actually stopped. Just stopped. What do I mean by stopped? I mean sitting down and doing nothing. Maybe reading. Maybe writing. Maybe sipping at a bit of coffee while I catch up on things.

My life the past couple of years has been a big blur, especially the last 6 months. I worked two jobs, took a class at school, stayed involved in a campus ministry, played drums at church, managed to find (and keep) a girlfriend, and still have a shadow of the social life I used to live. Wow.

These past three weeks has been amazing. I have maintained a steady sleep schedule, found time for my friends, started putting real time into an awesome job, developed my relationship with Rebecca, and actually managed to find a little bit to myself.

I've discovered new things about myself, and new things about the life God wants me to live.

Tomorrow, I go back to school. I stay in school for month, while still working my evening job, then I head back to Alaska with a team of students to do some ministry on the beaches of Kenai. Then I'm in Glorieta, New Mexico for a week with more friends, then I'm back in Lafayette and getting into the swing of things before school starts in August. I plan to be back in the classroom full time, working as quickly as possible to get out of here and get my life on track.

As I sit here, thinking ahead about chaotic life I am about to go back to, I often wonder if I am losing myself when I don't take time out of my busy schedule to just sit around and enjoy the company of myself and sit in the prescence of God. A quiet time has long departed from me as a daily routine and the journal folder on my laptop has not been touched in over a month.

One of my goals, for the rest of this year, is to try my hardest to take time to myself, and re-discover myself, and to spend time in His presence, and to pursue Him with all of my heart.

Better said than done...