Well hello! It has been quite some time.
Has life been hard? Not particularly. Rather enjoyable, to be sure!
Have I been busy? Quite, though not overbearingly so.
Have I forgotten log in info for my various social media accounts? Likely.
Is this upsetting? Nah.
Working the night shift has me up at strange hours on my days off. This, then, leads me to have quite a bit of unoccupied time on my hands. All of this time has allowed for a great many hobbies… I can usually be found with my nose in a book (literature that I now have time to read for the first time in seven years), crocheting as I watch Call the Midwife, drinking tea, studying the art of coffee, playing with my yoga practice, painting, talking to my dog, or sitting by the fire in the moonlight…….. and let us not forget all the thinking. Lots of thinking.
What is strange about the great many thoughts within all this thinking is I have found it oh so difficult to put any of them to paper ...As evidenced by the many drafts with nothing to show for them.
Maybe it is because I have thought so much that to summarize it all would be an incredibly daunting task. Or maybe each individual thought is so incredibly isolated from the others that to create any semblance of coherent writing seems unfeasible.
Ultimately, I do not know. But I can tell you I have begun to know myself better than I have in quite a bit. For the first time in a long time I can hear myself think… And this is beautiful.
I do believe that in my absence I have found a bit of presence.
In the silence of the night, I have found my mind has a voice again.
Oh, to sit before the Lord and just be present.
“One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.” Psalm 27:4
God, be glorified in our thoughts and actions. May the way we live, breathe, and even think magnify Your Great and Holy Name.
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