In Between
My mornings have been slow recently. Slow getting out of bed, slow popping my english muffin into the toaster, slow like the water boiling on the stove. I want so badly to be an early morning person, I want to have all my mornings be slow and peaceful, a gentle entry into the day. But, some days, in the midst of our hectic lives, slow mornings are just not possible. This is why I am trying to embrace the sacred in these rare, sleepy, lazy mornings.I recently wrote about my quest to discover the holy in the everyday and I am increasingly finding holy in the easy pace my morning routine has adopted. There is something simple, beautiful, holy, set apart about mornings that begin with a long, lazy cat stretch, a reach for my glasses, a stumble out onto the carpeted floor, the meander to the kitchen, filling my kettle and boiling water. I am discovering the Divine in these small, ordinary moments. Mornings are where I am discovering God's presence--as close to me as the very breath I breath in and out. I am thankful for these holy moments, for the privilege of a slow pace, of somewhere to sleep, food to eat, and for this rare time I have been gifted.Every so often, we are gifted with time--time to slow down, to rest, to heal, to remember how to simply be--this is what these slow mornings represent for me. I recently ordered another book by Shauna Niequist, Savor, it is a daily devotional intending to help you slow down and savor life. I found, that even before I purchased the book, the phrase "savor life" kept cropping up. In the last two weeks, I have paid more attention to the taste of life, the scent of life, to my very life force--my breath. I want to drink in each moment, I want to live into this brief in between season, before I gear up for another transition, another move, another change, another adventure.I have actively noticed when and where I feel most alive; when I feel most like the woman I want to be and the woman I want to become. I am paying attention, I am purposefully slowing down, I am letting the pace of life wash over me and cleanse me from the outside in--after a season of struggling and striving. I am attempting to give up my soul sucking task of trying to figure out the world, my place in it, my future, the next seven steps and my five year place. I am working on just laying down in the present, meeting life moment by moment, breath by breath.Peace, joy, blessings, deep breaths, and love:Margaret