This week feels a little like it’s been two weeks long.  I’d call it a pretty productive week, but also a week with full evenings and sometimes that equals a really tiring week too.

Here we are though – at the week’s end with Friday at our door.

 

 

funny

 

This week this text appeared on my phone.  It made me laugh a lot for some reason.

 

 

 

 

fashionable

 

Today the mailbox bounty was hilarious.  It was a tale of two lives, a juxtaposition of reality – the lovely vs. the ugly.

First – I received two lovely pairs of earrings hand crafted by my friend Heidi – wife to our family’s dear buddy Chris and new mom to a darling little girl.

Heidi is an incredibly talented designer who creates gorgeous wedding dresses and now is designing earrings too.  You can buy her lovely and light earrings at her etsy site right here.  (And you should.  They’re sweet earrings.  They are feather light so you get the fun of a big size but they feel like you’re wearing no earring at all.  Plus, you get to buy from a genuinely kind human who is probably spending her baby’s nap time being creative and running a business.  What fellow mom doesn’t remember those days and want to support that sort of mom power?)

 

 

Second, and here’s the funny part.  Inside the same mailbox (but different packages of course) also arrived an order I placed from Amazon.  (Yes, Amazon.  It’s just so much speedier sometimes than running to Lowe’s or whatnot.)  And that order was for rat poison.  Yep.  Rat.  Poison.  Because we have an attic issue that I don’t want to talk about, alright.

One mailbox.  One day.  Two very different “surprises”.

Welcome to my life.

 

 

flavorful

 

This week we missed our Sunday evening grocery store run and by the time we hit Wednesday without going to the grocery store it became more like a challenge.  How far can we go?  Can we make it to next Sunday?  We’re on the home stretch now so we’ll be just fine, I promise.

Although I might have offered the kids a choice between scrambled eggs or molasses cookies this morning for breakfast.  (They’ve got molasses in them – that’s breakfast-like.)

So this week I’m just going to share a recipe that my friends Addy and Hilary both say is fabulous and utilizes that favorite kitchen tool/appliance/miracle worker – Instant Pot.

It’s the Life Changing Beef Stew.

 

faithful

 

This week we sat in a living room with some friends and shared some songs and took communion together.  I felt the heavy weight of being a spiritual leader for my children coupled with the knowledge that I fumble that task more times than not.

It’s hard, heavy, humbling, delightful, overwhelming work.

Nothing I really do matters as much.

We attend a rather large church and I love our body of believers and our weekly times together and so many other aspects of our church.  But communion feels large there.  And that’s alright.

In that living room though, being individually handed the bread and the wine and hearing the words spoken directly to me – “body of Christ” – as I took my portion, felt intimate, holy and personal.

I watched my girls take communion too.  Same method.

And I was a little overcome.  Lovingly reminded that communion is, in fact, intimate, holy and personal.

 

feels

 

Okay.  I do love spoken word and poetry and poetry performances and all sorts of art that goes along with people saying words out loud in a compelling and unique manner.

Maybe it’s not your style.  It doesn’t have to be.

But perhaps you could give this video a listen or a watch or what have you.  Don’t turn it off before you finish.  You need to hear the whole thing through.  Trust me.

 

http://reachmorenow.com/dear-god-im-breaking-😮🙁😩😩😩-snapped/#sthash.WAXkN9LA.dpbs

 

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