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I'm Falling with Fall

   Fall is one of my favorite seasons.  The temperatures cool down, and we can enjoy being outside again.  I get a renewed burst of energy to tackle lots of things I didn't feel like doing during the humid hot summer.  I can't get enough of the changing colors of the trees all around us, and everything is so crisp and clear. 

  The holidays are coming, and I am so ready to finish our school for the year.  We always end our semester the day before Thanksgiving.  That gives us the entire month of December to enjoy the holidays.  Our Lord's birthday is such a wonderful celebration, and there are so many ways to rejoice over it that we need the entire 5 weeks.  Plus, I need that time to just be a mom with my girls instead of their teacher.  We make lots of memories through our annual traditions.  It will be interesting to see what traditions the girls continue with their families one day.

  Winter will be cold and bare outside, but I will enjoy and delight in the season I am in while I am in it.

Understanding Myself and Others

At this stage in my life, it is amazing to realize there are things about myself I still don't know.  Scarey, actually.  I have recently been learning about the basic personalities that we each have.  Although we are each completely and utterly unique, there are a set of basic personalities that affect each of us.  I have been set free by discovering that God made me just the way I am, and that is good.  That may sound basic to you, but somehow, it is an utter revelation to me.  As though I have been in a room with a certain amount of light where I could see, the things in the room haven't registered in my consciousness until now.  "Oh, so this is a chair I have been sitting on all this time!  Cool!" I know, very basic. 

I am enjoying watching those around me, and recognizing personality traits in them, and acknowledging that it is o.k. that they are not like me, because God designed them to be that way.  And, everything He does is with purpose and intent, for He is the God of order.  I don't feel like I need to apologize for myself all the time, and that is incredibly freeing.  Not to give myself a license to act anyway I want to.  But, to validate that I am not an accident.

How  wonderful to comprehend that God accepts me and loves me as I am , for He really did make me this way, and I am being changed from glory to glory through Him!

It's Time to Enjoy Spring

   May always seems to be such a crazy month.  It is finally springtime, and everything is blooming, budding, and sprouting.  And, the activity around here kicks into high gear with end of schoolyear activities.  Dance performances, piano recitals, chorus concerts, drama productions, art shows, gymnastics meets.  Are you as tired as I am?  I enjoy every minute of it, because it all centers around my daughters showcasing what they have learned and excelled in over the last year.  And I am proud as a peacock of them.

   Finally, we are at a week where things have slowed down.  Finally, I can sit and listen to the birds exulting in this beautiful season, watch the rustling of the newly green leaves on the trees, and delight in the beautiful flowers blooming in our flowerbeds.  My soul yearns for the slower pace, but my mind is still in high gear and needs time to match the pace of my heart.  I am more than ready to enjoy these days "out of school" where I can actually look at my beautiful daughters and enjoy who they are instead of focusing on what they are doing; to give my husband the undivided time and attention he so deserves, and too often lives without.

   Here's to today: a day to just BE, not to DO.  A day to truly enjoy the Father's rest, and to abide.