New Year's Resolutions

I made two new year's resolutions this year... and today is the beginning of both. The first was to start taking dance classes--which I will do at 1pm this afternoon at Dance 101 in the Hip Hop Flow class. This is my attempt at doing something each week for myself simply for the enjoyment I get out of it. I'm hoping I can keep up enough that enjoyment will outweigh utter embarrassment.

The second resolution was to start a blog. I have been meaning to start a blog since I first learned about them two years ago, but I could never think of an appropriate title. How to sum up who I am and what I stand for in a pithy phrase? Ah, the power of paradox. "Already... but not yet" is a nod to one of my favorite Christian theological tenets: the belief that in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the kingdom of God is already manifest, and yet not yet complete. For those of the Christian persuasion, we live in the between times of already... but not yet. And I love this paradoxical space!

I also find "already... but not yet" an apt description of identity, a topic around which much of my work as a graduate student revolves. I am already who I am, but I am not yet who I am becoming. And I pray this journey toward myself continues for a lifetime.

So it is with a modicum of fear and trembling that I publish this first post, with the fervernt resolution that it will be the first of many.