Thanks for This Day: Limits

I am learning to live in the limitations of being human:

in time, in place;

with needs, with purpose, with gifts--and with definite, good limitations in each of these areas.

I need sleep, food, friendship,

joy.

Sunlight, solitude, and levity.

Oh, how grateful I am

that when I am sick and tired, I do not have to be--and cannot be--the Energizer Bunny;

for the Psalms and one more time of reading exactly what my soul cries out, but cannot otherwise grasp the words, to express;

for color,

        texture,

                honesty,

for my curves--those I desire, and those I do not;

for prints of sparrows in fresh snow.

I am thankful for a call from a beloved friend at just the right time;

           for twisting, knotting, stitching, and then holding a scarf in my hands

                        and then seeing that scarf around someone else's neck

A warm house on a cold day;

             Morning's coffee

                        Sleep

                               Forgiveness

Again I ask: "Love--me? Really? Why me?" And I see that really it's Him, and His love spills over by will to make everything new.

The Creation Space