note to self

Hey, self. You've had a long and much needed break here in Kansas, but it's time to go home. All day you've been collecting toys and clothes that are scattered around the house, wondering how on earth you're going to stuff it all back into the car (good luck with that.) You've been grocery list making and school day planning. I know you're missing the routine of home (and most certainly your husband), but I also know that part of you-me wants this vacation to keep on going. It's that part that wants only to enjoy life's destinations not the every day journey through middle places. But your sister wrote some encouraging words today about that hum-drum middle place. You should read them again. Yes, now.

There, you feel that? Like a fresh breeze of truth clearing away the brain fog. The holidays are fading in the rear view mirror and even new year's resolutions have already lost their sparkle, but this life lived in-between needn't be hum-drum. It may not always be possible for you to enjoy what seems to be an endless cycle of wake, live, sleep, repeat, and there will always be days when you struggle to see the point, but there is a point. Along the road there is astounding beauty, and significance, and truth, and moments of mountain-top clarity, there is! You know it too. It's why you're always picking up that camera. So just don't forget it when you get home, ok? Ok.

This life is not godliness but the process of becoming godly, not health but getting well, not being but becoming. We are not now what we shall be, but we are on the way. The process is not yet finished, but it is actively going on. This is not the goal, but it is the right road. At present everything does not gleam and sparkle, but everything is being cleansed. ~Martin Luther