Good morning…
“I’ll bring the flowers,” said our new daughter-in-law, as we planned Thanksgiving details. How fabulous! Chandler has begun her new business, Earl Grey Floral, in Athens, Georgia. With a wedding reception in Savannah this weekend, she made us a gorgeous centerpiece with a few of the extra flowers. I can adapt to that!
Adapt. This was the word popping in my mind all day yesterday.
When the timing didn’t work quite as planned? Adapt.
When the lines were long and patience was tried? Adapt.
When someone asked for something I didn’t think to purchase? Adapt.
When the house was overrun with shoes and coats and computers? Adapt.
When my phone charger was borrowed from her dependable place? Adapt.
When I repeatedly tapped the vent on the Big Green Egg in the wrong direction? Adapt.
When someone left unexpectedly early and one long game pooped the rest of us out? Adapt.
When unusually rich food stuck to my ribs, and I feel bloated as I wake groggy in the middle of the night? Adapt.
When this new day promises an excessive amount of cooking and baking and eating and drinking and football and friends and family. Adapt.
In know that my minor adaptations are very small in comparison to many this holiday season. Grieving loss. Hostage hopes. Lonely hours. Missing family. Physical challenges. Pressing worries. Divided strife. In these quiet hours, I come to rest with God, sharing our collective prayer needs. I return to one of my favorite Brene Brown quotes about adapting to life’s undeniable imperfections.
“Wholehearted living is about engaging with our lives from a place of worthiness,” Brene reminds us. (To me, worthiness means trusting that I am relentlessly loved by God, always, everywhere, all of me.) “It means cultivating the courage, compassion and connection to wake up in the morning and think, ‘No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough.’ It’s going to bed at night thinking, ‘Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.”
I’m flexible, adaptable, and able to do and be whatever is needed for all kinds of people… (1 Corinthians 9:22b, VOICE).
…Sue…
