Ebb Tide

So things have slowed down considerably these last few days. Time to breathe. Only God's strength and grace have carried me through the breakneck pace of the last couple of weeks, and now I'm happy to get a respite. Today I even had enough time to thoroughly correct and edit my students' take-home midterms (you gotta love internet technology and the "comment" function on MS Word) in terms of form as well as substance. In my heart of hearts, I know that editing (my OC'ness put to good use - I can spot a grammatical error on-screen from 10 meters. Seriously. The law secretaries' pool probably hated it when I'd casually walk by their stations and call out errors) will remain a huge part of my life - secondary to kusinera-ing and traveling and probably on the same level as writing.

But I'm happy for a little calm after the many whirlwinds of activity I was recently swept up into. Much-needed "me" time to do "me" stuff like practicing on the guitar or watching my reality and lifestyle shows, reading books, and OK, it's technically "work" but I love doing it - drawing up training modules for food service and preparation that I hope we'll soon be able to make use of at He Cares. And - yoohoo - I get some blogtime in as well.

I love the way our lives ebb and flow like the tides, synchronized divinely so the waters are not consistently raging nor still. This time of "relative rest", short though it may be (any time now and the pace will pick up again because of all the many things lined up), is just what I need to stop a while and take stock of all God has been doing in my life, and to look forward to what wonderful things He has in store for me as I prepare to once again run toward them as fast as they're coming at me! At this moment, my fingers are bleeding, bandaged, and sore - mainly from too much kitchen knife action (and one unfortunate near-Yakuza accident with a well-honed Solingen) and made worse by guitar practice. So it's a good thing that we won't be rushing into any more catering projects in the next few days at least(thankfully), but there's a lineup of events we'll be needing to deal with soon - and I need all my fingers intact for those.

In the meantime, while we're on the subject of slicing and chopping - I hope I get enough free time this weekend to have my hair cut (finally). Yugh.