"Today I feel like the kid who missed the deadline for summer camp and stayed home all summer watching cartoons." Zooey Deschanel (via twitter)
It's been a weird summer. I'm realizing I'm a girl who likes order and routine (which is funny seeing I'm half Italian. Have you ever waited for a train in Italy?) and there is very little of that in the summer. That is the best part of summer and the worst.
I'm feeling a bit stuck in life right now. I know MANY of you are feeling the same way because I keep hearing it again and again from so many people. We continue to contemplate the next career steps for Jer. I keep cleaning our condo for house showings that never get feedback. We are in a weird place. Trying to change something, anything to get us out of the rut we have been living in. Lets be honest, my two new dining room chairs have brought me more joy than I care to admit (see photo above. Aren't they cute?).
Yet, we wait. As the quote above says, we and surrender our will. I'm having a tough time doing that these days. I would rather read Hello Giggles than give up false hopes. I am scared that the Lord will have me living HERE in this place forever. I know in my head that is not true but my heart is SO ready to move beyond this 'tiptoeing' through life stage.
I have worried over and over again about Pin's future. She turned 15 months yesterday and is still not sitting up. I I'm confident the wrong thinking is entirely MY fault. The life I have in my head is not matching up in the reality. I keep repeating the same simple prayer, now in my thirties over my daughter, that I did in my twenties over a husband: 'I will trust You even if it kills me.'
It's true. No matter how I feel, He is God and I am not. He knows and I don't. I want His reality and not the one living in my head (well, it would be amazing to be stick thin and only be allowed to wear J.Crew).
As for me and my house, we will wait on the Lord, while watching cartoons.
Xoxo-
Steph
Steph,
ReplyDeleteI love this post! It is such a great picture of what you are going through and what we are all going through in various degrees. I hear your heart in all of it. I too am one who likes order, likes routine, and likes to plan the future. But God puts each of us in a place where all we can do is learn to wait on Him. He is still a good God even when His plans are different than our own. He is still in control when at times we want to scream, "What are you doing?" He still loves us and has a perfect plan for each of us....including His precious Pinny. We don't understand it, but then again, we don't have to. We just have to learn to wait on Him and submit to His perfect will for our lives. It sounds like that is exactly what you are doing.
Although I am praying for healing for Pinny and for spiritual and emotional healing for you and Jeremy, I know that you are learning more about waiting and depending on God than any Bible study could ever teach you. Hang in there, sweet friend. I believe better days are coming! And in the meantime....enjoy those cartoons. Love you!