Realizations, activities and inspirations

Self realizations - I am an impatient person most of the time.  I want Papa to give me what I ask for in a timely manner from my perspective and so often miss the joy of the process.  It's not how I want to live anymore!  Talking with a heart-to-heart friend last night, I also realized that fear plays into this process.  Thankfully the Kingdom reality is that I am delivered from evil and do not need to live like this!


Recent activities - Sewing a seat back cushion cover for a chair in our living room and a costume for the Becky Fischer conference that is upcoming, plus ripping out the seams in the the old seat cushion of the living room chair to use as a pattern for the new cushion, reading Julia Child's book about her time in France (which is where she found her calling), school planning and the usual day-in-day out things.  We have lots of bean, spinach and lettuce plants above ground in the garden, too!  Running in the early morning has been such a refreshing and life-giving change; a couple of other changes in my running have been using a "Couch to 5K" plan that brother-in-law has used for training and a new pair of spiffy Brooks (Ghost)!  Last night was "Truckout" at M's -- my first one.  The grilled burgers were delicious as were the casseroles and the cake.  Conversation was mostly surfacey and not very intimate, although the heart-to-heart brief connection was life-infusing!  The younger crowd has and was having a grand time; we left around 9:30 pm.  This am was an early morning run, time with Him and then breakfast of blueberry waffles and Sumatra coffee. 


What's up for today:  A quick trip to the Monticello library for another Julia Child book, sewing the seat cushion cover and HH's open house.  


I ordered Child's two volume Mastering the Art of French Cooking set.  I love to cook and am interested to at least read these cookbooks, if not cook out of them; more than that I see them as prophetic encouragement in my quest to discover my destiny, calling and identity.  I have felt inspired by Julia's story since seeing "Julie and Julia."  Do your thing, Holy Spirit!


Things still on my "to do" list - order the rest of the texts we need for 2010-2011, read through them and make plans for their usage; creating in my sketchbook and other places; more time with Him; soaking: working through my LifeMaps book; reading...ah summer!