No school.
No work...
most likely until Easter.
To do list got wiped clean away.
And a new Lenten discipline.
Something like monastery life.
No vows of silence.
But a requirement to live simply.
Stay home. Be creative. Read. Be in nature. Love my children.
I feel my mothering instinct kicking in.
Gathering my little chicks under my wing and settling into our little nest.
I feel immensely grateful as we all cuddle on the couch for a Friday night movie.
I'm not sure what this new discipline is going to bring but it is definitely a new journey that will open my mind to gratitude and faith in yet different ways.
My commitment to daily kindness will now need to be more intentional.
Phone calls, emails, letters, packages, art. We're all in this together and intentional kindness could go a long way to reaching into someone's life and help anchor them against the anxiety which is so thick in the air, you could cut it with a knife.
My spiritual side feels called to lean into this. To absorb the silence. To fast from busyness. To embrace simplicity and let to sing -- it is well, it is well with my soul.
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