Good things....

Just a quick update on my life of late:
This new semester has started, and what at first promised to be a less hectic semester has since shown itself to be a liar. It is probably going to be just as stressful, busy and hectic as last semester, but that's okay and here's why:

I'm in a really good place right now. The last week+ in particular, but in general since the middle of January, God has really been teaching me some things, and it's great.

I've been in the word more than usual, and in particular the Psalms, which has really been exciting. In addition to this (or perhaps in conjunction with), God is beginning to teach me how to really worship Him in an emotional way--something that has always been hard for me as I tend to overanalyze the lyrical content, the musical quality, or even the the muscicians' intentions with certain styles (in and of themselves, not terrible things to be aware of, but I overanalyze and critique, and will be the first to admit it).
That, and I cannot seem to get the hymn "Be Still My Soul" out of my head to the point that it has newly become one of my favourites. Seriously, it's been playing in there for like a week....which is pretty cool as well.

At Church, our assistant pastor has been teaching a Sunday School class on seeing Christ in the OT which is always a really exciting topic, and this class has turned out to be especially so. Last week we talked about our responsibility as the redeemed (similar to the Israelites after the Exodus and Sinai) is to share justice and righeousness (mishpat & tsedek)with everyone else (particularly the misfortunate, eg., widows and orphans), just as [Adonai] has delivered us from out of bondage to Egypt (the other nations/the world, sin, etc.). Anyway, without going into it much more than this, it struck me pretty hard which was sweet. So anyway....yeah.

This is all to say, good things indeed.