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March | A Personal Journey Through 2019

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I have not laughed so hard or long in awhile! My chest began to ache!🤣 For Christmas, my husband bought me "Raised-Bed Gardening for Beginners." Well, we proved there needed to be a prequel. Ben's idea of "let's look at the book" meant flipping quickly through the pages for less than a minute! I read a couple things then we found scrap wood. . .well not just scrap wood. . .wood meant for the burn pile, but we made the pieces work. The "box" ended up looking more like a trapezoid. We added logs to make up for gaps (it'll be covered by soil anyway) and rocks at the corners to make up for more odd spaces. It looked pretty terrible in the process, but turned out rather lovely in the end! Ben is a magician (🕺) when it comes to making things work. We skipped all fancy fuss since this is our first attempt at raised bed gardening. Our porch garden began small and grew into a rose bed. I've no doubt our trapezoid box will grow into something bigger & better as time goes on. But bite size steps are always the best way for making things happen. One more garden "box" to build. We will see what kind of shape we manage. Our garden is really beginning to come together in its own odd missy-matchty way. I love it! It's all very nonlinear like life!🌸🎉
I keep a little book filled with one line prayers, new thought patterns I want to instill, and personal motivation. Before #covid_19, I wrote something to the effect of "I will plant my feet in chaos and change." Even before this crisis, I was feeling as though life was upended and transitionary. It felt unstable...not in bad ways, but in ways that came with new needs & unknowns. It's that place of being in the unsettled middle. You can't go backward and you love going forward, but forward looks like nothing you've known before. . . So I resolved to plant my feet. Put my rosebush in the ground. Settle into life. Be right where I was. Then all the worldwide chaos entered!💔 And yet, my personal resolve withstands: I will plant my feet in chaos and change. I'm going to plant a garden. I'm going to tend to my home. I'm going to dream. I'm going to envision plans. I'm going to work hard and well. I'm going to prepare for our baby. I'm going to feed treats to the goats and organize our bright yellow shed and carry on. And it IS chaotic. But we're right here. This is real. This is our place for life, for living. This is the time to plant ourselves again. This is precisely when we carry on.❤
Our backyard this evening!☁️🌈 If you look closely you can see the rainbow! Such a stunning scene for the first day of spring. While we are all in the process of readjusting to new plans, lost jobs, financial unknowns, and varying transitions, we are also all STILL in the process of whatever pain/struggle/heartache we held before all of this. So here's what we can do: Be emotional in the precense of God. Part of trusting Him is showing Him how we feel and sharing with Him what we're afraid of. He likes to know us. He's good at carrying us with His comfort + truth. And our hope in Him has not changed but we've become poignantly aware of it. Let's remember the reality of pain never comes at us without the reality of God being there with us too. God does LIFE with our lives! And the first day of spring is a reminder of that.🌸💗 #TheCelebratingSoul
Just a H A P P Y reminder!!🤸‍♀️👏 Spring is happening no matter what is happening around us and how comforting that God moves the seasons along and helps us through all things while also making beautiful things for us to see!💗 We can still smile. We can still open our eyes. We can still pick flowers and be overwhelmed by all those bright blossoms & leaves.🌸💐 In fact, there probably isn't a better weather season for us to weather this life season! #firstdayofspring

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