I love today for its simplicity. It starts with waking up free of obligations, no one but myself to rush for. I skype with my mom and two of my sisters. I miss them over there, but it’s a good missing, not so sad as much as it fills me with love and hopeful expectation. I make lunch–barbecue chicken and corn/cilantro salad–and enjoy it sitting on my counter, the sun streaming through the sunlight in the kitchen.
These are the pieces of a great day that arrives without pomp or ceremony. We are going to make it. These next four weeks of school are going to happen, whether I’m ready or not, and who knows what story we’ll have to tell at the end of it all? It’s moments like this, looking forward, where I know it’s all worth it.
God gives us rest, and he gives us joy, simple but filling joy.
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