A Sunday at Home

 It was Daylight Savings Time this morning.  My phone automatically adjusted to the time change.  

My oldest daughter has adjusted her sleep schedule so that she can wake at 5:30 am and let our dog Iggy outside and make me coffee before everyone else wakes up.  So, when she came down this morning, I talked her through how to change the clocks downstairs and upstairs.  Changed them on the oven and the microwave oven...  

It's a little thing.  

Ten years ago, I got sick and the consequence was that I have to exercise every day.  I'm grateful for that now.  Yoga has made my legs strong and strengthened my balance so I can get around on crutches and lift up my leg to elevate it.  I had to accept at the time that exercise wasn't a choice anymore, but rather a requirement.  I'm glad for that.  Exercising hasn't always been easy and even often painful, but I had to tell myself it wasn't a choice.  I've realize many times that it was a blessing in disguise.  

Time seems to have slowed down, but not to a halt.  

I need routines.  I do the Wordle and Connections puzzles each morning, then Bible study.  Take my medicine.  I talk with my husband and children.  Their lives haven't stopped even though mine is on hold a bit.  I try not to think about that.  

The Lord laid a phrase on my mind last week:  "What is, Not What Isn't".  It sums up so many things--finding contentment, peace, comfort... These are the things I need.  

So, today that's where I'm going to start.  


What is.

The surgery is done.  I've started healing.  I'm resting.  I need to tackle one day at a time and not waste the time I have.


Not What Isn't.

I can't walk right now.  


What is... is where the Lord can help me find peace and seek His will.  

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