half-thoughts and circles

I have tried to write this past week. There are half-posts in my drafts folder even. But with so many half-thoughts going around in my head right now, to think through a whole one, from start to finish, feels a little beyond me. That’s ok, though. Things will get better.

I’m grateful that somebody told me once that life goes in a circle, up then down then back around again. That’s just encouraging enough on the down days, and just reminder enough on the days that are up to remember to appreciate them.

Mom and I are team-teaching a girls’ class on Wednesdays now. It’s been so good to do something with her, and I think the girls are liking it. (At least they’re still coming!) We’re going through what it really means to be a super-woman, from Proverbs 31 (Yep, Evelin. That lesson.) and it’s been a good look into what God is looking for in me — that it’s not about having a family, growing grapes, sewing clothes and being Betty house-wife, rather it’s about who I am. Everything begins with my character and finishes with me and God. That’s what really matters.

So I’m just going. Up and around and down again, then back up and around. Listening to and learning from wiser people. Reading. Laughing with my family. Hanging out with junior high girls and older people at church. Enjoying the sunshine. Remembering to stop and include God in my take on what is going on (and sometimes what isn’t) and to try to understand it all as he sees it.

Each circle is worth something. Each brings a new view at the top and new friends and findings at the bottom to make the next time around even more amazing than the last.