The last two

Life in the past few days has been like, the sigh after hard work.

I don't want to make an idol of Rest - in fact, don't want to think that I should need or enjoy more the specific things I write here, more than I need Him.

Alternatively, I do not want to shirk the gift of enjoying break. God holds the balance.

It has been so good - I have gotten a little more sleep! A few days of living in what has accumulated - acknowledging it and giving Him thanks for it.

Two days have been full of gift:

• thankful for my twenty-three years, no more, no less.
• thankful for the conviction of sin and of mercy.
• thankful for time to be attentive to 'fearfully and wonderfully made'.
• thankful for storage room reminders to care for my soul as I work with those who suffer.
• thankful for old friends, chatting late into the night with ice cream and tea.
• thankful for enjoying crosswords, vintage hats and music - together, because.
• thankful for sisters praying on the summer grass, and working out His beauty and salvation in their steps.
• thankful to be humbled to listen - to let His words resonate anew, to hear them as if for the first time.
• thankful to be humbled to speak, and to speak like a child. His child.

May "the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit."

~ Philippians 4:23