For Perseverance

[Sanvean]

Things have been pretty rough lately, and it is looking like this summer is shaping up to be a much more trying version of the last.

I ended up needing to make the trip north a couple days ago; if I had stayed home any longer, I would have been facing starvation, and I just can't deal with that again. So, here I am staying with my father and stepmother, in a city where I know no one, and already the jabs at me and, more particularly, the Faith have started.

There's more, too, but the point is... everything seems to be self-destructing, and I'm lonely, tired, stressed and still can't find work. Despair is a definite temptation.

Please pray that I can find the perseverance to make it through this.