Crusts and Crumbs: Today...

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Today...

I am thankful.

I am not in my dream job at the moment. Lately it has been very challenging. I have been struggling to keep a positive attitude and a spirit of thankfulness.

So, today, I am thankful.

I am thankful for a temporary job that involves lots of dish washing that gives me time to memorize God's Word daily.

I am thankful for a job that involves working with young children that teaches me patience.

I am thankful for a job that involves challenges in working relationships that teaches me even more patience, and selflessness.

I am thankful for a job that provides us with extra money to save for the future.

I am thankful for Romans 12.

I am thankful for the strength to endure each day with the cheerful countenance that God requires.

I am thankful for the opportunity to witness through my actions.

I am thankful for the humility God is teaching me through my mistakes.

I am thankful for the lesson of perseverance.

I am thankful for the opportunity to find a dream job.

I am thankful for May, only three months away!

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AnonymousFebruary 25, 2010 at 5:43 AM
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AnonymousFebruary 25, 2010 at 10:18 AM
This is a huge blessing. Thanks friend!
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Change.

Understand, I don’t intend to stop posting recipes completely. I still love cooking, and sharing that love with others. But I’ve also always enjoyed writing, and have recently rediscovered that dusty love. I feel like digging it out of the attic, and giving it a bit of a polish. I’ve been inspired by other bloggers, by their
daily grit and grind that they share with the world. By their faith and tenacity as they plod through life. I feel like taking advantage of the flexibility of a blog, and writing what I feel like, when I feel like it. The crusts and the crumbs of my life. A recipe today, a remodel post tomorrow, a reflection on parenting next week. I face a wide open space, waiting to be
filled with whatever I desire. And I like that challenge.

Me.

Much of my writing will never even see the light. It will never make it past the parchment of my mind, where it is scribbled in invisible ink for me alone. But some of it does. That bit is what is written here. Humbly posted for the world to see, if it cares, or to ignore if it doesn’t.
I’m not a spotlight kind of girl. I’m shy, and quiet, and a bit reserved. Oh, I like a good razzing between friends, and a spirited board game with the best of them. I love hosting friends and family and cherishing moments together.
But at my soul, in my heart of hearts, I’m a quiet evening with my man, fire blazing, hands wrapped around a warm cup of tea kind of girl. That’s when I’m most blissful.
So, I don’t write for a spotlight, imagined or otherwise. I don’t write for others. I write for me. If not a single person (besides my soul mate-we’re bonded as one, so he counts as me) reads this blog, I’d be just as satisfied in writing it as if a thousand had read it.Which is good, because a thousand people definitely
won’t be reading this. No, I write because there is an itch in my soul. An urge, somewhere deep inside of my being, to craft my thoughts into words and inscribe them, preserve them, and make meaning from them. It brings me peace to take the whirling dervish in my mind and put him to rest.