how do you start over?

I find myself a bit melancholic today. I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that I would normally be spending Saturday afternoons watching football with the roomies...and now I'm sitting in my room trying to figure out what to do today.

I'm anxious to start my new job on Monday...to get back into a "normal" pattern. Being jobless for the past 2 months (or 4, if you count the tour and Africa as "unemployment") has been a bit rough. Obviously, if you know me, you know that I'm someone who likes to be doing stuff, have control over things, know what's happening, etc. This has been a different and interesting season of learning to let go. Whether I have actually learned to do that...still figuring that out.

I'm also realizing that it's been a LONG time since I've had to kind of start over from scratch in building community. As much as I want it to happen, I know the process involved is not easy...especially here where finding a church is not like finding a church in Atlanta or Nashville. It's just going to take some time. And patience.

So, I'm just having one of those days. The kind where I miss my friends.