I just need to take a moment...... a moment to slow down, to breathe, to enjoy life as it comes, to watch a sunset, to listen to a thunderstorm. I just need to take a moment for myself.
Life has come fast and heavy since my last post. After returning home from the conference, work happened, snow storms happened, and an earthquake happened. Yes, you heard correctly and earth quake. I think it was the earth quake that actually set everything into place this week. For the past 6 weeks, I feel like I've been grasping at areas of my life that need rearranging. I've been jumping from project to project at work, not really able to complete any of them and the same could be said for my home life.
Around 11PM on Sunday evening, as I sat sleepily in bed watching the thunderstorm, what I thought was a loud clap of thunder startled me wide awake and I watched as the tall, spindly trees out my window swayed back and forth. What I know now to have been an earthquake somewhere near central Arkansas, was the one thing that seemed to jolt everything into place. For the past few days, projects at work are being completed, my desk is less cluttered, and piles of stuff at home are getting put away. It might sound extreme that I attribute all of it to the earthquake, but what else could it have been?
As I look forward to spring, I see many, many projects that I want to complete. I am not going to be able to get to them if I do not slow down to take a moment to breathe and to fall asleep to the sounds of a thunderstorm instead of the sounds of tv.
Moments are healing.
Take a few for yourself.
3 comments:
Moments are very healing... and they become moments in time, as your life continues to unfold.
It will be fun to see what you are up to this spring, but don't rush anything okay? we have the rest of our lives left to live... ♥
this was a lovely post. i think we all need to be reminded to take those moments. glad nothing serious happened in the earthquake, that is some scary stuff!
Emily - I didn't even know it was an earthquake. I remember hearing what I thought was thunder and noticing that the "wind" really picked up because the trees were swaying, heavily, for a few seconds. But then the thunder stopped and the "wind" stopped. Found out the next day it was the earthquake... most likely. Strange strange stuff.
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