Intentional Living
Cultivating a life that supports the soul. Building a life based on Christian principals, emotional health, and good boundaries.
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Midlife threshold: Recommit
In that dark time, I realized that my faith had been built on a wide and deep foundation of need. My need. I had come into this relationship empty and broken by grief and loss. The need had seemed unending. And yet, here I was over twenty years later realizing that my need was no longer enough.
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March Soul Care…
What are you learning? What small steps are you taking? How are you practicing courage? How are you caring for your soul?
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Overflow living…
So, what if I am busy and popular if I don’t have time and space to enjoy my days. So, what if I am needed but not known. So, what if I have all the things, there will always more things to be had. Over the past few years, I have struggled to find a new way to measure my life.
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This is the good stuff…
Maybe the most important thing I took from that season was a new awareness that my purpose doesn’t lie out there somewhere, but right here in the ordinary cadence of my days. Who am I to love and serve? Let me see, who I can see from here?
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Managing the gauges
I think about the video games my kids played. They had gauges measuring life, health, fire power, or strength. As the kids moved through the game, interactions might increase or decrease the health, strength, or fire power of a character. They were always looking at the life gauge that indicated when the game had come to an end.
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Self-care in real life…
When I am weary to the bone, depleted mentally and physically, I often need good old-fashioned rest. I need the get off the ride and allow the world to stop spinning.
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Redefining success…
Success here is not based on a number on my scale or the back of my pants, but a new awareness that my body must be nurtured and cared for as a good friend. She needs to be fed, clothed, and cherished. I’m not going to get another.
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What your life says…
If you feel like you are no longer leading in your life, and instead feel like your life is running ahead, and you are simply bouncing behind it… here are some things you might want to consider.
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Winter beach…
I still need to just go. To rush to the wind and the shore, and remind myself that there is still spontaneity and fun in me. I am too serious, and often too well planned. I am tired from taking care of all the people. Maybe when I am tired from the cares of life, instead of a nap, I need a quick trip to remind me of this other part… of me.
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Another way…
I don’t know if it is cancer or turning fifty, but these things are crystal clear to me now. I would have told you that these things mattered before, but I know them differently in this season of my life.
