There has been times in my life that I’ve majored in minor things. In this season of my life, I want to live simple.   A part of doing so is just not being bothered by people, or situations.   This is easier said than done for me because I like to control my environment, and the people in it.   There, I said it. In this sage age of wisdom, I am understanding more and more how that is just not how things should be.   It's exhausting to need to control. People resent you for it anyway. So there is a fine balancing act of allowing "the chaos of people" to be allowed in my environment. As I perfect my journey on this new path, it has been met with unintended answers to my prayers. I now realize that one of them is being overwhelmed by having to deal with PETTY PEOPLE.  They are everywhere! The world is filled with people who have nothing better to do than stir up mess and create problems. I seem to keep running into them.   I’m doing my very best not to...

  This summer I took two courses.   Math and Business Ethics. I felt drained mentally.   The last 8 weeks went by like a slow-motion blink. I had joy.   Good things happened, but it just felt exhausting. One positive thing that occurred was my involvement with my new church. It’s in its infancy stages and everything is new and exciting.   The people, the passion, and the mission.   It has rekindled faith and promise in me that had solidified on a back burner somewhere. This week I was inspired to write.   I wrote a song.   I wrote two poems.   I wrote a presentation for a motivational speech I will soon deliver. I returned to my blog. The irony about taking Math and Business Ethics is that I really do know math conceptually, and I do have ethics, figuratively.   However, after fundamental applications were required in the processing of both math and ethics, I was struggling. Literally struggling.   Thin...