Dear Reader,
There are weeks when the days move both too fast and feel slow.
When the lids feel heavy too soon after rising.
When the body feels dense, aching, and unsettled in its skin.
When the dishes, caked with grease and coffee and breakfast, find a permanent place in the curve of the sink, when the laundry piles in its bin, when the cat scatters litter around the room and into the corners, when the sunlight illuminates a floor covered in dust and dog hair and little bits of dead leaves tracked in from the yard.
When rest feels elusive and yet the night comes too fast, piling the to-do’s on top of each other so they are still there, waiting, in the morning.
When the tasks are never-ending and yet boredom permeates the hours, and the minutes become bloated with minute distractions.
And you wonder if all of life is really just a series of little chores and errands and dusting and planning and trying to remember the password to that one thing you signed up for ages ago, and how is anyone supposed to live a big, important life when life demands so many unimportant and yet necessary daily works?
There are weeks like this.
And while the dishes and the errands and all that is monotonous may remain, there are also weeks when the body will feel lighter, the head will clear, and the days will stretch longer and longer into warm, peaceful nights, and you will find yourself once more.
These weeks are coming. They are already on their way.
Today’s Prayer
Clear away the dust filling the corners of my life that is keeping out what I need most. Bring time once more into my days - time for rest, enjoyment, for things that keep me closest to my created self. Please help the good rhythms of my life to settle on me once again.