Pressing pause

Being a part of the launch party for our university online newspaper is quite the trip. It's been in the works since last spring, but in one of my classes this semester we've been providing the filling...and everything else, for that matter.

Here's the deal: there are four of us. Four isn't much, especially when we have to make the whole vehicle run.

I like editing; it's the biggest part of my job at this point. I edit everyone's stories and send them to our professor for her approval before they go live on the site. Like I said, I enjoy it, but it takes up a lot of time. When it comes down to writing my own stories, I almost have to write it all in my head first during the time I have before I can type it out.

It makes for an interesting news feed in my head.

In a nutshell, or nut graph for you journalists out there, my brain is functioning on a whole new speed these days. Taking in information, creating my own, making sure everything is done when it needs to be, connecting to the lives of other people...it's like one of those news channels with seven different feeds running across the bottom and top of the screen.

Alas, is this what our lives have become? Information overload? I believe it has.

It all circles back to that need for peace. A peace from God that can only be generated by placing our total trust in him.

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." - John 14:27

I'm still working on that. It's good to help people edit their stories, and definitely important to write our own, but we can't leave out the Author of our lives - and key subject matter. I know that his Spirit guides, but I have to shut off a few channels in order to tune in to his direction.

Some things I follow on Twitter, which is what my life feels like sometimes when you hear from people all of the time and don't always know what to make of it all and then you're supposed to type in 140 characters or less something worthwhile but you know that no one probably really cares...come on, spare time:

1. @washingtonpost - The Washington Post
2. @HuffingtonPost - Huffington Post
3. @AP - The Associated Press
4. @CBSNews - CBS News
5. @NBCNews - NBC News
6. @espn - ESPN
7. @andersoncooper - Anderson Cooper
8. @AdviceToWriters - Jon Winokur
9. @nytimes - The New York Times
10. @USATODAY - USA TODAY Top News

Thanksgiving break can come quicker if it would like.