Seeing

Today was a new kind of day for me. Since I only work part-time right now, my eyes are always open for other opportunities to earn money and do new things. So, when a woman I know asked me to help her around the house and do her errands, I said yes.

The first day of something is always the hardest (right? say yes), with learning expectations and standards of quality and such. I came home exhausted, even though I only worked a handful of hours. Not because the day was horrible - several bright spots stood out throughout the day - but because anything new and even somewhat stressful wipes me out.

Welcome to Honest Confessions of an Introvert.

But what were those bright spots? They were the 'clouds' in my day - speeding by unnoticed until I remembered to stop and look up.

I do have clouds that float through my days, and I must remember to stop and see them.

An Introduction

Some days words inspire me, and others....not so much. Welcome to my not-so-much day.

But let me seize the occasion, take advantage of this lack of expression and introduce myself.

I'm Christa, a follower of Jesus Christ. That's most important. However, I'm also a tea-drinking, book-loving, cloud watcher who also happens to be a recent college graduate. Exactly two months ago tomorrow is my graduation anniversary. Is that even a thing?

That wasn't much of an introduction. Parden me, but you may have to devise what you can about me as time goes by. However, within the previous chapter lies the reason for this blog. What is it, you may ask?

Well, I have begun this endeavor to keep track of my post-graduate life. What am I doing with myself now? What is my work? How do I play? And especially, maybe hardest of all, where am I going?

Honesty is important, and I am going to do my best at being forthright about both my successes and also my failures. I know that I need to grow in so many areas of life, yet it would be unfair to fail to say that I also have sweet victories behind me. Not because of me, but because of God's saving power at work in my life.

I'm on the path of sanctification - a path that will not end until the day He returns. May I be walking uprightly before Him always.

Bits of Beautiful

Through the window I see clouds, stretched across the sky in an almost-continuous layer of mass. It must be windy, for I can noticeably perceive their movement, west to east. Yet as I look closer, there is more to them than simply a gray wall of gloom. Here - a small section is a bit lighter - and there, the same. And above the horizon, yellow-orange sunlight teases me from behind the wall, making me want more. 

No, these are not my favorite clouds to look at, I admit. But when I stop to appreciate them, even these Pittsburgh clouds are beautiful.

And so is my life, when I stop to think about it. It may not be extraordinarily breathtaking at first gaze, but when inspected, bits of beautiful shine forth.

So this is me. 

My thoughts, my honest questions, my discoveries. 

My place of discovering the beautiful and my journey of seeing the clouds.