Some mornings you roll from back to face, feel gravel lumps in your throat and roll around for another hour before swinging feet to the floor.
Some mornings you take nearly half an hour to make two boxed lunches and clearly do not have your A-game.
Some mornings your husband comes to the rescue and takes the kids to school.
So on those rare days, you stay in your pajamas and let your 3-year-old stay in hers, and you snuggle on the couch and laugh hard when she tells you that you smell sweaty. You snap together pieces of a floor puzzle, finger felt board pieces and play “I Spy.”
Yesterday-and-the-day-before you — with her shimmery lipstick and fast feet running from soccer game to wedding, from church service to soccer game to late-night celebration — may have felt guilty.
But not today you.
Today you has grace for herself and knows sometimes she needs breaks from all that doing to linger in her flannels and slippers, giggle with her daughter and simply be.
What spaces have you recently created — or can you create — to take a pause from the doing and just be?
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Welcome to a rare day Ash! And one day (with nothing but a shower in between) may you have 2 rare days in a row! xo
Oh thanks, Mama! Unlikely any time soon. But won’t that be lovely? :)
Amen!! You so needed a morning such as this! I find I need more of these than I even wish to admit. :)
I hope you get one soon. You CERTAINLY need it. xoxo
and even now, retired from teaching and with our kids all grown and with families of their own, I have to remember its ok to do that very thing! My best is to just read a book on one of those days!
Such a great point, Martha — that this is a life-long challenge, especially for women, it seems. I, too, LOVE to read a good book in the be-ing time. Hope you get some time for that really soon!
Oooh…I love this one :)
My space like this is the coffee shop…no chores looking back at me, just me and God and my thoughts. Quite a few months ago, God put it on a friend’s heart to share with me: it is out of BEing with God that you will know what He wants you to do. That was helpful for me as a reminder that the BEing actually makes the doing more effective.
So, no guilt allowed! :)
Ah yes, the coffee shop. So good. What a great insight by your friend and you, Holly: “The being actually makes the doing more effective.” I love that. Amen to no guilt!