Your Daily Tidbit - 9/22

My kids are geniuses. So are Hubs and I. I think it's time I share some of our worldly wisdom with all of you on a daily basis. They might just be quick one-line responses you can use in your everyday to combat stupidity or elicit laughter. Some of it might be great advice you'll want to adhere to. Take it or leave it, these are some of the rules our house lives by.


Learning From Others
So often I catch myself reading you.  The things you say sometimes catch in my throat. I nod. Reflections of my life and my experiences flash in my mind. I am reminded how it's been. How it can be. What I've seen and felt and heard. It's easy to get caught up thinking we've been there, done that, felt it, and tried a way. But then someone writes something, something so complicated or simple, it does not matter. It whips us back around and says remember me. I am important. Here are a few snippets of things I've read lately that made me bite my lip and think. Really think.


1.  The reality is, our story is exactly as it should be, whether private or public. It is ours alone even if it's also yours. And I don't know how that's possible, it just is. Maybe because we are this family in this moment, and our connection is felt and then savored by only us in so many ways, no one else could possibly fully know or feel it, and that's what makes it private. (Heather of the EO)




2. 

Know my every flaw

And accept me just the same

My pillars of strength

Sisters and brothers

End each other's sentences

Annoying.  Funny.

Always family

Never will there be a day

That I don't belong.

(Michelle)

3.  Mark will ALWAYS be the father of Nathaniel and Audrey, and will always be part of our family, even if that is in an ever evolving way. We pray for Mark daily in his battles, and wait on the Lord to form him into the man that he is called to be. (Gretchen)


4.  I'm always in a hurry.  I talk fast.  I eat fast.  I drive fast.  I prefer the shortest distance between two points.  If I am not moving fast, I feel as if I'm moving backwards.  I do not chose the scenic route.
But, there are moments of clarity.  Moments, when I am able to see clearly these other changes, that I realize it is not that we have taken two steps back.  Rather, God has guided us down the scenic route as we inch forward.
I did not map this route out for us 6 years ago.  But God's Grace has shown me that it is beautiful.  (Rebecca)


5.  I've been practicing being present, fully present, in my day to day, moment to moment activities (this is no small feat!).  Fully embracing whatever is happening and NOT making judgment about it (whether it's washing dishes, listening to the kids scream & fuss, feeling the sun on my skin, chatting with a friend, you get the point).  This, in one sense, has been a challenge, and, at the same time, in another, it's becoming extremely easy.  Just letting go and letting life happen.  Truly going with the flow...  (Leslie)

**All textural changes have been made by Tooje to highlight words or phrases that really caught my attention.**