Sunday, September 26, 2010

Happiness and uncertainty....

Ever feel like you are happy but somehow you might not deserve it? It might not be intended for you, but you are just catching a whiff of it while it's on it's way to sit on someone else's doorstep? Kinda like you are in a bakery and you know that all you are taking with you is a fresh loaf of bread but you smell the cinnamon rolls instead?

I have struggled with that feeling for months, questioning, bargaining, and negotiating it's stay and it's elusive arrival. I'm content... content with my life, where I stand right now, content that my daughters love me and suffer no apparent lack of attention or affections. Excited about the potential of this week, confident that I am lovable, overjoyed at a milestone that someone else will be hitting. When I feel like this, I see everything in amazingly vivid colors, no structure or boundaries. I'm convinced it's here to stay, I've paid the piper, I am somehow deserving. I am surrendering to grace. It's found me.

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