Quietness is rare.
Lately I've had a chance to "catch up" with a lot of far away friends on the phone. Their lives are so eventful and I've found myself saying over and over "Well, not much is going on here. Just the usual, you know, school and everything." Many of my friends are moving or having babies or raising babies or working a million hours or some combination of all of those. Many have big and exciting things going on in life.
At this current season in my life I just....don't.
At first I fought it. I was restless. I felt like I should be doing more. Maybe I'm not walking with God like I should. Maybe I should join a new ministry, be more outgoing, maybe I should be moving or having babies (don't worry Babe, I don't really want one right now). Maybe, I should be filling the empty space...with something....anything. Finally I realized,
quietness is rare
and we need it.
My life won't always be this way. Someday there may be kids, or a move, or a ministry (again, I have no current plans for any of these things), and I know there will be more work hours. I look forward to any or all of those things. For now though, I've decided to embrace it. I've decided to embrace the normalcy, and the quietness. This time of just Dave and I, in our quiet house, doing simple things like dishes and laundry and petting the cat.
It's funny, even as I say this, I have that little voice in the back of my mind saying "There should be more going on. Go! Do more! Change something!" It's that feeling that something spectacular should be going on. I'm a little bit of a change-o-holic. Be it good change or bad change, sometimes change feels more normal than routine.
But still, I know that this quiet time, this time of routine, this time to breathe in and out is ok, even needed. So I've just decided to let it be, for I know it won't last forever, and that someday when life is busy and full of change again, I'll wish I hadn't wasted it trying to fill it up.
"Time’s this priceless currency and only the slow spend it wise enough to be rich."- Ann Voskamp
Enjoy it to the fullest, you will never regret it. Then you'll be able to enjoy the crazy too cuz you won't be wishing you could go back and enjoy it. So wise, I know :)
ReplyDeleteI'm sitting down stairs and it is quiet... except for the distance snoring of my babies :) It's been a loud day, lots of screaming, squealing, laughing, crying. I agree, quietness is rare and it is lovely when it comes along.
ReplyDeletethanks natalie and kristen. i have so much respect for both of you as moms. I think that is a season where quietness seems the most rare. :) hope you both get some each and every day. :)
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