petites choses

At the moment, just about every aspect of my life is up in the air. School, work, church, dancing, living place, how long and where for any of those. It's a little crazy, and things aren't progressing as well as I'd have liked, particularly with respect to grad school. It'd be great if you could pray for God's direction & encouragement in all of those things, because I look around and feel fairly helpless (not necessarily a bad thing, from God's point of view, I suppose).

But.

God's been giving me little things to make me smile. I suppose living by myself made me more willing to laugh out loud alone, because, well, no one's around, so what does it matter? It doesn't feel awkward anymore, and it's pretty cool. So, Thanksgiving's around the corner, maybe this is an early post, but things that have made me smile this week:

- I'm so excited that I get to hang out with my friends this week! On multiple days! You have no idea how happy this made me.

- the "Happy Song" was on the radio just now, and it makes me laugh because we often sang it at staff Fireside but never knew the complete lyrics so the verses were always rather garbled.

- Reading both "Leviathan" and "tohu bohu" in Les Mis made my day.

- I found cute shoes for dancing. Women's shoes. At the first store I looked for some. That's aboslutely unheard of - it usually takes upward of 2 years for me to find anything but athletic sneakers (easier because I can just buy guys' shoes for those).

- It's great to see fall again, and to smell it. I missed the smell of fall. Hopefuly I'll get to smell that lovely snow-eve smell soon!

- I can't even figure out what some of them are, there have just been moments of (solitary) laughter over the past few days that have made them bearable, and I'm thankful for those. Hopefully I'm not just going 100% off my rocker and becoming delusional.