it's been a while... again
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I keep starting this post in my head and never quite getting it onto the page. Over a year now. I remember writing last spring about forgetting how to rest... and then life went ahead and made me rest whether I wanted to or not. I’ve had some health things to look after. Nothing I want to write about in detail... some of it is still mine to carry quietly. But there were appointments. A lot of them. And a lot of waiting. I never knew how much of life happens in waiting rooms. The same chairs, the same old magazines nobody reads, the television up in the corner talking to no one. You sit there with your coat on your lap and your name not called yet, and the minutes feel longer than they should. One morning I put my hand in my coat pocket and found a sticky note. Folded twice, the ink a little smudged. I must have written it months before and forgotten all about it. It said: “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions neve...
