Familiarity

And just like that, my last semester of college is already well under way.  EMU feels to me now like a comfortable old shoe.  It's so easy to slip back into the routine here, but I also know I'm outgrowing it and it will soon be time to move on.  What's hit me more than ever in these first couple weeks back on campus is the weight of growing up.  Not so much in the sense of needing to know what comes next or how to enter the real world, but simply the reminder that life is challenging and confusing and we'll never quite figure it out and isn't that the point, navigating it the best we can?  A question I keep coming back to is how to recognize that I'm not going to get it all just right and then to have grace for myself.  I'm not very good at it.  But in any case, I'm looking forward to seeing how the semester plays out.