here i go again with the belated sunday goodness posts… this one was done consciously though because i had to finish my notebook for culinary school and i just couldn’t fit in a little block of time for this post after alllllll the procrastinating i had done on the notebook, so… monday goodness it is.
however, i did take the picture below on the actual sunday morning and i really do love it because it’s so many good things in one shot:
1. lazy weekend mornings
2. coffee
3. cake for breakfast
4. jesus and his teachings
i usually pick up my bible every few days or so, or at least once every couple of weeks to soak up a bit of the word, hoping to carry it with me throughout my day, but i’m ashamed to say that it had been several months since i’d gotten it out. i had been going to church, sure, but i hadn’t been giving the lord much one-on-one time outside of mass. not really for any particular reason, but just because i’d gotten busy and let earthly things consume me as we humans tend to do. but sure enough, as these things go for me, just when my imperfections and worries began to pool in my thoughts and cloud my better judgment, i remembered my savior and clung to his book of truth, and all at once it pulled me in like a lifeguard pulling a flailing, sinking child out of tumultuous waters. and i praised and i thanked, because god is patient and his mercy and grace and love are endless.
i’m as baffled as the rest of the world this week at the atrocities of humankind. it’s horrific and heartbreaking and terrifying and yet somehow still very unreal as i lay in my comfortable bed in these safe four walls of my little home in dallas. how far away it feels, yet it could have been any of us. it’s a lot to wrap my brain around, and it makes me feel small and helpless in this very big and scary world.
the only thing i know to do is spread love. spread it like wildfire. in everything you do, do it in the name of jesus, in the name of love, in the name of the people you care about. there are so many good people in the world too, and we have to have faith that good will prevail. it will. let’s spread goodness and share love wherever we are with whomever we meet. are you in?