How Susan got her groove back
Yesterday was a much needed down time day. I’m a very strong introvert, and being a wife and mother who works outside the home means I get very little alone time. During the school year I get a lovely rush hour commute alone. But in the summer, it’s rush to get a kid or two to some location and then the rest come to work with me at Staff Camp. It works out well, and I’m grateful to have my kids close by, but again, very littel down time.
Yesterday, I went to the farmers market, the library, a used bookstore, the $1 movie, and Saturday evening church worship. It was a day all alone and I relished it, and am doing my best to squelch the quilt of abandoning my family and household duties.
It’s a continual cycle of getting burned out, trying to recover, trying not to feel guilty about needing to recover, and keeping on task with all my roles as wife, mother, employee, and child.
There is a reason why God rested on the seventh day. And the Bible doesn’t say anything about God feeling guilty about it either.
The movie I saw was “The Soloist” starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jamie Foxx. What an awesome story about grace. About loving your neighbor….warts and all. What a great reminder lesson on my day of renewal.
Today, Pastor Ken’s message at Crossroads UM was about God being transparent. God let’s us cleraly know how he wants us to live. It’s something like how Steve Lopez is to Nathaniel Ayers in “The Soloist.”
Thank you God, for my day of renewal. You tied in today’s message quite nicely and it will ring true with me for quite some time, I’m sure.
