Writing
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A new season
All three kids are at school this morning and I’m not working today. The stars are aligning for the first time in perhaps a year, perhaps more. I look at their desks in different nooks of the house, sitting still and vacant, and I feel both wistful and relieved. With a rare morning of quiet, I puttered about this house this morning, cleaning a little, doing assorted tasks, reading a bit, never settling down. The same restlessness I’ve often felt in my life, driven by a niggling goad – “don’t waste your time.” Don’t waste your time. You only have this fragment or that – while a child’s napping, in…
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One more brush stroke
In early 2018, when I started this blog, I decided to name it “Naptime Musings,” because at that time, I was mainly writing during Zoe’s naps. They were not very predictable at that point, and there was always a far too long list of things I wanted to get done in those 45-90 minutes. There were several clear calls in 2018. The centerpiece call was to learn humility in motherhood. But I also felt a call to minister through the written word. So I resolved to be more intentional about writing, and to create a blog. There were bigger and smaller scraps of time throughout the year to write – some were…