Monday morning….yet its holiday….sorta…..daughter is home, Chaser is still in Arkansas duck hunting, so we have a girls only week during th workdays. Today is a day for organizing and doing laundry, but I am sitting here ignoring the chore list! Yesterday we bought an antique bed in Harvest, AL and brought it home and played musical bedrooms as we made room for the new one, gave son a new bed, and disassembled a futon/bunk bed that was no longer needed.
Chili has cooked all night and it is indeed good. We cheated and had chili for breakfast today because Miss Madison wanted it…..why not! Now we’re beginning the loads and loads of clothes from holiday traveling for the children. A week on the farm is more like 3 weeks of laundry as they hunt, fish, and then have dress up occasions.
Tomorrow we have painting a room on the agenda. Madison’s room is a dark blue from the previous owner’s selections, so today we’re working on clearing out the room to get ready to paint.
Yesterday’s sermon was on how to mend a broken heart. It was appropriate and meaningful to me yesterday, when I look over 2008 we faced so much this year, in the scheme of things, it wasn’t life threatening like a loss or cancer, but it was life draining like the custody issues, the stresses of a move to a new state and city, the aloneness of being new in a new state, the loss of family visits and togetherness…..in many ways my heart had been broken last year and for once, it seemed no matter how positive or how much effort I put into my goals, they simply were not accomplished in the manner I had hoped they would be….I have grown in new ways and had new dreams planted in my heart…and yet, in order for new things to grow, one has to turn soil over on the old, withered plans.
I feel a desire to let go of more, to lessen our possessions, to continue our journey to live simpler, do more with what we have, and to find more quiet time together and alone.
God is good…
