Lately, I have found myself in a set of circumstances where I felt a little bit stuck, but a personal

conversation here as we get started today, not really in a bad way.

Things are awesome, families great, and friends are great, and I love doing this.

I got other fun, meaningful things going on in my life, but every now and then over the

course of my life, I just had a handful of things, opportunities, challenges, stuff where

I'm not in control and just kind of have to wait and see.

When they all happen in a big bunch, it's like when you don't open the bag of cereal

quite enough, and then all of the Captain Crunch jams into the little opening in the bag

you made, and it's just too much.

And you know that gravity means it all wants to get moving, but you just got to get it

unstuck a little bit, and maybe open that bag a little bit more, but that doesn't fit

into the analogy.

So ignore that part.

I have been in that kind of situation where I'm like, all right, I just got a little bit

of a log jam here, and it's not really bad.

I just got to, I got to pull on a few of these logs and once I get one or two of them moving,

then everything else is going to move in the natural direction and eat some moving.

It's going to be awesome.

I feel like Esther is stuck in the middle of this book that we're looking at.

I do not see her as a character who has distinguished herself as being exceptionally noble or honest

or of great character yet in this book, but I also haven't seen her be bad.

She's just unwritten at this point, and there's a whole lot of stuff beyond her control

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