Well, its been more than 8 months since I last wrote in this blog...more like 3 years. But as I read my previous entries, they struck a chord with me (probably because its my life I was talking about!) and pulled me back in again. I have been on a journey since last I wrote, but not one that I traveled with my body, but one that I am on mentally.

I am still in the midst of a gazillion distractions and while many of them involve my now 10 and 4 year olds, most of them are completely self-inflicted. I don't seem to want to focus on one thing at a time and that has left things here in a bit of disarray (thats a nice way of saying that I cannot reach my sink in my bathroom because when we got the carpets stretched a week ago I moved all of the cr*p off the floor in the bedroom into the middle of my bathroom. Ugh!)

Today I did laundry, cleaned the kitchen, made dinner which left the kitchen a mess which is how it currently appears, spent a few minutes in the car learning french, spent way too much time on the internet (my biggest time waster and distractor extraordinaire), searched houses on the internet because we are hoping to buy one and move in the next few months, made 3 corn bags (all-natural heating pads), made dinner, helped my youngster get a shower, went grocery shopping and bought a trash can for the kitchen from a specialty store across town. Now I am writing a boring blog about it all.

But what I really want to do is to keep a few things in mind that I have learned recently. So I'll just put them down here to keep a record of them.

#1 - To be at peace and to be happy, stop trying to figure everything out. Let God do it.

#2 - Let this moment be the end of me and the beginning of God. Said by Bishop Benke in a wonderful article here.

#3 - Live this Bible passage daily: "Speak Lord, for your servant is listening."

#4 - Realize that right where I am, regardless of how well I do it, "I am able to impart truth, health and happiness, and this is my rock of salvation and my reason for existing." (Written by Mary Baker Eddy.)

#5 - And gosh darnit--be Mary not Martha! (A Bible story found in Luke. Jesus visited his friends' home and Martha was very burdened with the serving while her sister Mary sat with Jesus and was taught by him. Martha thought that Mary should get up and help her! Who wouldn't?! But Jesus told Martha that she was too consumed by all that and that Mary had put God first and that was the best thing to do. Perhaps if Martha had put learning more about God first too, they all would have pitched in together and had a simple meal without all the fuss.)

So at this moment I am open to Love's divine adventure! What has God got in store for me next? I'm looking forward to finding out.