I need grace to live in Kansas City every couple of weeks. It's whenever I try to like it on my own strength that I utterly fail. This is how it usually goes: I look for things that make me smile here, whether that be people or hangouts or food. When I get bored with those things I get so dissatisfied that I moved to the middle of nowhere. But what I'm learning is this: my strength isn't how much I am able to tolerate or enjoy where or where I may not be, but it's learning on Jesus who is my strength. In the end it may even be that my strength to endure a season is not liking where I am because Jesus is able to become the only sustainer.
In a completely unrelated note I am beginning to explore particle physics and it is amazing me how much it sings of the Creator. Being a student of science is being a student of God's created order, and that is quite enjoyable!