Current mood:

calm

New Surroundings
Working in a new building has helped me to change some things that needed changing; most notably my lunchtime habits. :) I used to eat at my desk every day, and very often spent the time browsing webpages or journaling or working... not that any of those things are bad, but I've found something better here. :) I've found a way to be alone. In my old building, there really was no place for solitude unless you wanted to walk a quarter-mile to reach your car. Here the parking is just outside the door, and there are nice trees for shade to park beneath where I can pretend I'm far away and free. :) I've started going out there at noon with a lunch bought from the cafeteria down the hall. Today I was considering driving over to the church for the lunch rap (a short message in the church restaurant to listen to while you eat), but I was too late to have arrived on time. So I sat in my car with the windows down, and called the church instead. If you ask, they will put you on hold and you can listen to the message over the phone. People do it all the time. :) So I got to hear a really great message about living by every personally spoken Word from God, and afterward I just sat in the sun with my headphones on, listening to guitars and voices and melodies. It was incredibly peaceful.

I've also discovered that I can read a book quite undisturbed at one of the quiet corner tables in the cafeteria. I've been doing that too, and finally am finding time to make progress in some of the books I've been reading. :) The spiritual refreshing from these times is so wonderful! God really met me today, and calmed me with several lovely verses from His Word. Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.