Tuesday Morning Joys

This is a list of collected joys over the past few days.

• New pajamas

• Sleeping in on the weekends in the new pajamas

• Freshly done laundry

• A clean counter

• Dishes put away and the dishwasher being run

• The incredible luxury of putting recycling out and having someone take it away—it is satisfying and I am really grateful

• A new exercise that is fun and exciting for both Will and myself

• Will will be on a more manageable schedule in just a few days!

• The new season of Bridgerton to watch

• Getting to eat meals with people I love

• Drinking lots of tea on Saturday morning

• Mid morning naps

• Sunny weather

• Getting to wear spring clothes

• The chance to participate in meaningful ways

• Receiving snail mail

• Thinking about taking vacation

• A new coloring book and colored pencils

• The way the colored pencils slide smoothly across the coloring pages

• Writing with pens full of bright and happy designs

• Loving and supportive mentors

• Writing on pretty paper

• Sitting outside, eating cheese and crackers, and journaling

• Devotions that speak to my heart and soul, bringing such comfort

• Reading other’s stories and learning how they connect to the Divine

• Hearing people’s stories, being invited in to hear and listen

• Flowers—fresh in a vase at my house, on a bush, blooming from the ground/pot, designed on my pens, paper, and mugs (really anywhere)

• Getting to hold and snuggle Olive

• Trying on sparkly things

• Packages of lightly salted mixed nuts

• Sleeping in accidentally and still making it to work on time (while feeling decently rested)

• Looking forward to Mysteries of the Abandoned on Science channel Monday nights

• Remembering I am more than my job (that yes, I love to do but it is not all of me)

• Hearing lovely stories about the way God shows up and helps

• Talking to my grandmother

• Eating dinner with my parents

• Eating dinner/breakfast with my mother in law

• Showing my new clothes to my mother in law

• A new dress

• Laughing so hard tears start to form in my eyes

• Choosing to believe in my dream and to step into creating for the sake of creating

• Therapy

• Feeling energized on this Tuesday morning

  I was in quite a rut on Sunday. I get so in my head and so focused on one or two things that I forget to live inside of my body and to be present where I am. When I get like this I get stuck and live even more in my head than in my body and real life. I am trying to find things that help and reflecting on my joys truly does. Reflecting on the big joys, small joys and all the joys in between lets me realize that not everything is awful and that this life, this world, this body, this person I am right here right now deserves to live here in the present and that the holy, Divine, and set apart is right here just waiting to be found.

  May joy meet you wherever you find yourself to be today and everyday.

  Amen.