fireside ponderings

I am sitting by the fire planning my time to be spent back in Seattle. Solidifying my schedule and filling up my days to come. I am already unhappy to be back and am daydreaming of my great escape. I have spent the last week and a half in Minnesota not worrying about my own adventures, though praying and preparing for someone else’s. Before I sat down to write this morning I thought of making lists and figuring out my ‘to-do’s’. I am reminded to not plan, but listen to God’s calling. I haven’t felt pulled in any such direction. I haven’t truly been listening.

For this I pray-

To love

To listen

To seek

To trust

I am made anew. I have hope. I am covered in grace.

“O! he gives to us in his joy,

That our grief he may destroy

Til our grief is fled & gone

He doth sit by us and moan’ “

–On Another’s Sorrow–

William Blake