Outside my window…brilliant blue sky, bare tree branches, and a large squirrel condo, toasty warm with lint from a dryer vent stuffed between the twigs. The three youngins haven’t been out to play yet.
Thinking…as I sit surrounded by yummy books, that the challenge to pay attention and concentrate has little to do with external circumstances. It is a constant exercise to still my brain in patience and dive deeply, one at a time.
Thankful for…joy in conversations today, a little more peace with memories, and a growing sense of hope.
Praying for…the children of Haiti who have lost their parents. Lord, bring them into families and communities who will love and care for them.
Creating…my prospectus, still, plus emails and conversations and a couple of day dreams.
Hoping…for 5 more pages written by the end of today.
Going…to plan some events for my birthday year (40 needs more than a day to celebrate).
Reading…lots of books on prayer–Karl Barth, Marjorie Suchocki, Eugene Peterson.
Hearing…the clinking and clanking of the radiators and the whoosh of high winds.
Around the office…it is quiet enough to almost hear the whispering books.
Favorite thing…reading and pondering a beautiful line by Ann Voscamp:
“And they can build monuments and they can make millions and they can write memoirs but this is what lasts, this is what goes on forever and ever and will endure times and winds and all the ages. Heaven and love and Jesus. And there is such a thing as too much money and too much sun and too much of a good thing, but this world has only one thing that there can never be enough of: there is no such thing as too much love. And they may not etch it on memorial stone, but granite erodes and quiet people know it so we get up every day and we make the porridge and wash the underwear and pay the bills and tend to the hurting and we etch the love on the hearts, that which beats on without end and we pulse throughout the universe. There’s a way to do work that lasts forever. Just do everything with love.”
Post inspired by http://thesimplewomansdaybook.blogspot.com