FInally feeling settled, but still so far away from home

My new town is absolutely mesmerizing. Before my arrival I assumed that living in the mountains was going to be sheer hell. Small town, nothing going on, all of the "hill people" connotations that are obvious to most. But when I first turned onto 460 (main highway that runs straight through town) on August 10th, the finality of my decision really sunk in. "I am driving through my town", I said aloud to no one. "And it is absolutely beautiful". The mountains are covered in emerald tree tops and wild vine that is betwixt along the power lines and tree branches that overlap above, making it seem like one is driving through endless tunnels of God's greenery. From the chair on my porch where I find myself nearly every evening, I look up and out to the mountains that are slowly overtaken by the night's clouds. These are the same clouds that I literally drive through at any part of the day or night, the same clouds that at my home in flatter grounds would hang miles above my head and out of reach. Even in their darkest, stormy hues they do not seem ominous any longer. IN many ways they are comforting to me, and seem to wrap me up tight before bed. Truly the hand of God, in some way, descends on this tiny town and keeps everything quiet, serene, and safe until the morning dawns and a new day begins.

It is with each new day that I gain the strength to get through another day away from the people I love most, and also the conviction to pursue what I came here to do. With each case I brief, every note I take, every definition I have to constantly look up in Black's Dictionary, I feel like I am doing exactly what I have been mean't to do for my entire life. Please don't mistake this eagerness as an admission of the "easyness" of my work. Trust me, it is the most difficult text I have ever encountered and it will only continue to be more complex. But I do not fear this complexity, nor do I shy away from the challenge. Ultimately, I have no other choice but to embrace it. And honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way.