Recent Discoveries

1. Recently I read this: "Our humanity makes us leaky people.  Truth comes in and fills us up but our cracks and crevices and circumstances are like drains pulling the truth out and leaving a hollowness that can haunt.  Daily, hourly, moment by moment we must stand in the reality of our identity before we resume our activity."
Don't know why (except yes I do know why) but this slapped me in the face and then it pointed at me like I should feel ashamed of myself.  I'll admit, I've been spending a lot of time lately absorbed in some negativity that has been swirling around me.  I don't really like it and I don't want it, but I've reveled in it and let it take over too much of me.  Now I'm standing in the reality of my identity, and I think I'll walk away from myself and toward what I know is Better!
2. Recently my husband and I decided to start looking for a new home so that we have a little more room to grow as a family.   While I'm super excited at the prospect of owning a larger home, I've found that I do not enjoy house hunting!  Call me crazy, but once the idea of moving started becoming more of a reality, the process itself became slightly overwhelming to me.  Who would have thought there would be an instance in which I didn't enjoy shopping?!?
3.  Three words: Old mix CD's!  In connection to discovery #2, I've started going through the stuff that we've accumulated in the past five years (which is a disturbingly large amount of crap!) and I found a set of CD's that I made for a crazy group of teenagers a few years back and I can't stop listening to them!!  Here's to small groups with high school girls (and to one no-longer-teenage-girl in particular who I know still shares my love of these old hits) and to the fun, cheesy music they require!