Currently…

Listening:  Birds of Tokyo.  I am digging their recent EP album Lanterns.  So good.  So much to sing along with.

Eating:  Apple and almond butter because life is so much better with any kind of nut butter.  Although I do wish I was eating these Chocolate Chip Cookies again.  Harper made them for a party we went to this past weekend and honestly, I’m just not sure there’s anything better than a really good homemade chocolate chip cookie.

Drinking:  Water.  All the time.  I have a giant Bubba cup my SIL Becky gave me and it’s become an extension of my body.  It goes just about everywhere with me.  I shoot for a gallon of water a day.  I also totally dig Spark.  Right now orange is my favorite and fruit punch in Josh Kelley’s favorite.  Around 3 o’clock everyday you can find me mixing one up and pouring it over ice in my ginormous cup.  These are survival tips people 🙂

Wearing:  Sweats.  With an unshowered body and 3-days-since-it’s-been-washed hair.  #noshame

Feeling:  Overwhelmed.  We are in the strangest season of life right now and I feel like we’re on the verge of crazy good stuff, but then nothing happens.  Nothing seems clear.  Everything is cloudy and we’re unsure of every step we think we’re taking forward.  And I may or may not have had an intense conversation with God where I begged and pleaded and demanded He just do something…just something to let me know He was still there.  And I still feel confident in our relationship…His love for me…because one thing I love about Jesus is He is big enough to handle and love my entire self…the bad, the doubts, the mistakes…me and all my crap.

Wanting:  To feel settled and confident in where God is leading our family.

Needing:  To work.  I have orders which need to be completed and started.  Thank you notes to write.  Key fobs to make up.  Emails to send and reply to.  My house = a hot mess.  There will always be a list a mile long won’t there?!?!?!  But instead we swim…almost every day.  We are legit pool hoppers.  Going from one pool to the other to the other and soon I’ll be sending off a 2nd grader and 2 kindergarteners.  Time is flying.

Thinking:  I recently finished reading Tattoos On The Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion.  Please read this.  There is some swearing in the book, but it is filled to the brim with love and Jesus and compassion and will challenge you…at least it did me.  It pushed my thoughts to the very edge and made my heart stir and my mind think and I cannot kick it out of my thoughts just yet.  I think it’s taken up residence for a bit.

“No daylight to separate us.  Only kinship.  Inching ourselves closer to creating a community of kinship such that God might recognize it.  Soon we imagine, with God, the circle of compassion.  Then we imagine no one standing outside of that circle, moving ourselves closer to the margins so that the margins themselves will be erased.  We stand there with those whose dignity has been denied.  We locate ourselves with the poor and the powerless and the voiceless.  At the edges, we join the easily despised and the readily left out.  We stand with the demonized so that the demonizing will stop.  We situate ourselves right next to the disposable so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.  The prophet Habakuk writes:  “The vision still has its time, presses on to fulfillment and it will not disappoint…and if it delays, wait for it”  Kinship is what God presses us on to, always hopeful that its time has come.” Gregory Boyle Tattoos on the Heart

Enjoying:  This picture of Amon.  He woke up from his nap the other day, walked down stairs and Harper, Sol, Hudson and I just stared at him.  His hair.  What exactly had happened during nap time?!?!  Comments that followed his arrival downstairs: “What’s wrong with his hair?”  “His hair is so…uh…tall.”  “How did his hair do that.”  I personally felt he looked exactly like Kramer from Seinfeld.

Enjoy the rest of your day.  Thank you for stopping by and reading.  I totally and completely appreciate you!  See you guys tomorrow.

Happy Wednesday!