Serenity Now
After a chaotic summer of drowning in applications, tutoring materials, lesson plans, music, cuts, scrapes, bruises, sprains, school buses, staffing, Sundays, volleyball, and day campers, I'm pretty much spent.
I've spent the last week catching up - well, trying at least. Classes to enroll in for Tyndale...Systematic Theology II is up for fall - yikes! Banking, babies being born (not mine people...not mine), family, friends, gripes, moves and happier thoughts.
Today I spent 3 hours in a meeting of things that we will be doing for the next 2 months - PLUS and afterschool program that is to begin Tuesday. Argh. To top it off it was sweltering hot so I've escaped for a few hours to get back home and have some dinner. Instead, I jumped in the pool.
We have a pool at our place but rarely ever use it. I think this is the second time I've been in. As I lay floating in the cent
er of the pool, I of course am forced to look up - heavenward.
Nothing but clear skies and palm trees swaying in the wind.
I'll admit I've never loved palm trees - they look ridiculous to me because most of the time they're all trunk and no foliage. I just love the look of full trees - not annorexic ones. Yet through all media and travel brochures, palm trees scream "cast your cares away at this tropical haven". Finally, I've come to appreciate these ridiculous looking things - not so much for the lack of shade they provide but more so for the feelings evoked - calm, peace, serenity.
So I enjoyed my float and few laps around the pool - why haven't I done this more and why have I discovered this AFTER the summer is over? I'm always the slow one - duh.
Although it was a happy 30 mins - water in my ear and Troops programming at the corps for the evening has whisked me back into reality. And here we go again...
I've spent the last week catching up - well, trying at least. Classes to enroll in for Tyndale...Systematic Theology II is up for fall - yikes! Banking, babies being born (not mine people...not mine), family, friends, gripes, moves and happier thoughts.
Today I spent 3 hours in a meeting of things that we will be doing for the next 2 months - PLUS and afterschool program that is to begin Tuesday. Argh. To top it off it was sweltering hot so I've escaped for a few hours to get back home and have some dinner. Instead, I jumped in the pool.
We have a pool at our place but rarely ever use it. I think this is the second time I've been in. As I lay floating in the cent
er of the pool, I of course am forced to look up - heavenward.Nothing but clear skies and palm trees swaying in the wind.
I'll admit I've never loved palm trees - they look ridiculous to me because most of the time they're all trunk and no foliage. I just love the look of full trees - not annorexic ones. Yet through all media and travel brochures, palm trees scream "cast your cares away at this tropical haven". Finally, I've come to appreciate these ridiculous looking things - not so much for the lack of shade they provide but more so for the feelings evoked - calm, peace, serenity.
So I enjoyed my float and few laps around the pool - why haven't I done this more and why have I discovered this AFTER the summer is over? I'm always the slow one - duh.
Although it was a happy 30 mins - water in my ear and Troops programming at the corps for the evening has whisked me back into reality. And here we go again...
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