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| bonus points for using one of my favorite fonts on the cover! #loveatfirstfont |
The first book I started reading by Shauna (because we're on a first name basis like any good stalker) was Bittersweet. Since I began Bittersweet, I've devoured Cold Tangerines (the book, not the fruit), most of Bread and Wine (again, the book not the food - sense a theme? and why I love her writing so much?), and pre-ordered Savor. But I'm still reading Bittersweet... slowly but surely on my true days off in coffee shops all over the place, trying desperately to hide when the chapter makes my eyes well up with tears.
She wrote a chapter called "The Middle" about being in the middle of a tough season. She closes it this way:
You'll still wake up in the night with the same old fears, and you'll still face the same tired eyes in the morning, but for a few hours, you'll feel protected from it all by the goodness of friendship and life around the table, and for a few hours, that's the best thing I can imagine.This season of my life right now is good, but because I'm such a good optimist, I know that easy seasons don't last forever. So right now, for this season, I'm trying to enjoy the people around me. The ones who encourage and challenge me in a thousand ways that they probably don't even know. That's my new theme. Until I run out of people or someone gets angry at me, I want to use this little space to highlight people who I have needed in my life and why they're important to me.
If I look back at the very first blog post I ever wrote, I realize how very alone I was in the darkest season of my little world. Because of that, I never want to take for granted the community that I have and how thankful I am for it.
