Summer Excitement.

Day two of blogging and I couldn't be more excited! It's been a fairly boring day today; a typical summer day in which you wake up having no idea what day it is or what dimension you're in, and not knowing what to do with yourself. I've gotta say that I'm still stoked that I'm beginning summer in May and it still lasts until September (can you say college perks?!).

My morning actually started off quite humourously, but I must give some back story in order for this morning's story to make any sense...
I spent the past two weeks touring the East Coast of Canada in three nine-seater pedo vans with my college choir. I was in the van that our choir director drove and over the course of tour we frequently listened to "Honey, I'm Good" because Dr. Choir Director really likes it.

Now, fast forward to this morning's story...
Ever since coming home from the tour, I've been able to sleep in and I haven't been disturbed by my brother or dad getting up to go to work. This morning however, I woke up around 6:30AM and I felt as though I had woken up for a purpose. My brother uses the radio as his alarm and all I heard coming from his room was "nah, nah, honey I'm good; I could have another but I probably should not..." (etc.) which, if you haven't guessed already, are lyrics from that song! My body basically woke me up to be like "hey! this is your song!" aaand then I promptly went back to sleep.

My day basically went downhill from there; I didn't do too much.

There was another exciting occurrence though! My roommate from college this past year (I just finished freshman year) who has gone up to her cottage for the four months of the summer to work, texted me saying that she'll be home for a few days next week. We're going to hang out and we're both absolutely ecstatic about it! After living together for eight months, these past three weeks have been pretty lonely since being apart post-graduation. Even though I've lived with my family for my entire life (outside of the past eight months), I've been finding it quite difficult to integrate myself back into family life.

In each post, I'm really wanting to have a little section at the end about what God has taught me or where I've seen him, etc. in that day. So here we go!

Today God allowed me to experience rest in him. The day started out pretty slowly; I stayed in bed until 10:30 or so and didn't have breakfast until 11:00 (that's pretty late for me, okay!?). My mom was saying at one point in the afternoon, "we haven't gotten much done today!" and I found myself responding that not every day has to be so jammed packed with things to do. I feel like our society makes us think that we're lazy if we take one or two days a week where we don't do work unless we absolutely have to. I think that if you can afford to relax, do it! Use that time to read a book, spend time with God, take a nap, find a new recipe and try it out, or whatever it is that you want to do that isn't something that you have to do. Try it. You won't be sorry that you did; I guarantee it.

With that profound tidbit floating around in your mind, I shall bid you goodnight!

Elizabeth