Is this the appropriate place to talk about my career choices? I suppose, since I've always considered myself a writer first and anything else second. But the seasons of life inevitably take us through changes and expansions of our horizons, new vistas and the manifestation of visions given to us a long time ago by God.

If 2011 was the Year of Letting Go, 2012 is the Year of the Harvest. For me, it is the beginning of the culmination of many things I knew and only saw in part several years ago, but God continues to be a torch to my path and is showing me the way He wants me to walk.

For those of you following my writing career, never fear, the novel is still going to be published, one day. Of that I'm sure. Do I obsess over it constantly, as I did for the major part of the past couple of years? Nah. But do I still wish my editor would be more speedy with her comments to me? Of course. The story deserves to be told, and I believe, one day, God will allow it to succeed in order to bring glory to His name.

But for now, this season, my vision of building a healthy living retreat for environmentally ill people is foremost in my mind. Perhaps, because I've noticed a decline in my health since last summer, when the electric company installed a smart meter on the side of my house and I developed chronic headaches whenever I was in the kitchen. Many intellectual and emotional miles later, I've decided that helping people recover from this onslaught of environmental pollutants can and must be my first priority in life.