It’s day 99! Isn’t that CRAZY? 🙂
To even think I’ve written 99 reflections (well give or take a few…) is unbelievable and the fact that you are reading them is even more insane! 😉 Especially these past few weeks (well maybe even all through Lent?), thank you for ALL o f your support and prayers. I know I’ve written about it more than once but it is about the family we have in our parishes and church communities that will get us through the purpose(s) we were each created to fulfill. If these past few days of raw brokenness is meant to inspire anyone in any possible way I pray its in the message that we will all have these moments where we come undone and even though when it seems there is no hope to see the new day that will finally offer a ray of light to the bleakness, hope against hope and trust because the day will come.
Today God was in the small stuff. Time spent with a friend in the morning and time spent with another friend at lunch, both offering that time for me to ‘be’ or to unload. The archaic memory of a girlfriend when we were 12 yrs old and the crazy things that brought us to gut wrenching laughter and then picking up the phone to call her and recognize that God’s time incorporates life long friendships because it was as if we’d spoken only the day before when in reality it’d been over a year. And this amazing pizza I made tonight that has all of my favorites: spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, black olives, and chicken… Y U M. PLUS hearing the smile peak through Neal’s voice, if even just for a brief moment, it was a gift to know that this is almost over. One more IV bag and we are on the downhill ride.
It’s nice. 🙂
So, maybe tomorrow, since it’s the 100th day, God will come bounding in with bells and whistles blowing at full steam, with no limit to His gracious ways. Or, maybe I’ll have the opportunity to show up for Him again, paying forward in an offer of humble gratitude for the way in which He’s held me these past few weeks.
Who knows? But that is what I do enjoy about each and every day, even the bad ones, you never know what you’re gonna get.
Blessings!
Shannon