Joining with Kate's tribe of #fmf writers over at Heading Home...
Just focus on "relief," set a timer for five and.....go!
Good grief, RELIEF is anything but what I feel right now......
Because decluttering, disposing of, donating, organizing for six hours yesterday yielded so little "thinning out" as I look around. REALLY? Come on. Seven hefty bags of stuff vacating the house doesn't make a difference? But I've come to recognize...... houses are bought and lived in. Homes need to be made. With our hearts and gentle touches...after the purging of all that extraneous of course. And so I keep at it. I will. Right after I hit publish. I mean it.
Because that quick visit to the dentist to have a thirty year old <small > and crumbling filling refilled yielded news that the tooth next door needs a root canal....REALLY?? And how does that happen to someone who brushes after <most> meals and flosses twice a day? And here's what I'm never doing again: Listening to the dentist when she says, "Hey this is a super small cavity. You don't even need to be numbed for this." Ok. Why not. How bad can it be? Here's how it went: Marathon Man, anyone? You know what I mean, right? Please tell me you know what I mean. Never again... and judging by friends' reactions when I shared on FB, most are with me!
Because I cannot look past the blood money that is exchanging hands within the walls of my parish church and though our pastor has become part of the fabric of our lives for the almost nineteen years that we have been parishioners, I need to go beyond and to a "higher" level to seek cessation for the parish support of an American institution that is irrefutably linked to the abortion industry and it pains me. I like to be anonymous. I like not to make waves or cause tension. But this, I can't watch any longer. Something needs to be done and I'm counting on the Bishop...and if not him, then the Pope, to be the change that needs to be.
Because algebra. And homeschool paperwork. And history. And literature. And knowing that time is short and there's much to learn and how do you fit it all in? hmmmmm.
Because life and balance and covering bases and not dropping the ball
and laundry and recovering peace during waves of strife. Because strife does come, does it not, into every family at one point or another?
Because Him. "I can do all things in him that strengthen me" and because this I need to remember. <Phil 4:13>
and laundry and recovering peace during waves of strife. Because strife does come, does it not, into every family at one point or another?
Because Him. "I can do all things in him that strengthen me" and because this I need to remember. <Phil 4:13>
And my time's up...that was SO not relevant to relief was it?
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