If you've been reading Pollywog Creek for a while, this post and photos will look familiar. It's the beginning of a series I began last September, and for reasons I no longer remember, I never finished. I've been a low energy, air-headed kind of girl all my life, and distractions {both good and bad} can easily derail me. When I get back on track, I often forget where I was originally going and just head off in the direction I'm led. I'm a typical sheep who desperately needs a shepherd. Gratefully, I have One, and true to his nature, he lets me start over. It's grace, y'all - pure grace.
That said, I begin that series again - slightly edited to reflect this September. I do hope y'all will add to the discussions and feel free to call me back to it if I wander away again. Although you are welcome to use my living in yellow list, please know that I wrote it for me. I share a few truths and thoughts not that I think you need them, but that I need them, and writing about them helps me do just that.
After thirty-five years of marriage and twenty-three years of homeschooling {all by God's grace}, I live in a September season I could not have imagined as a younger woman. I don't remember what I expected my life would be like with married children and grandlittles, but I'm quite sure this wasn't it.
Last summer, in a quiet house and with time to reflect, I made a Living in Yellow list of ten points {in no particular order} I want to remember about life in this September season:
- It's not about me.
- Don't stop learning.
- Continue to live frugally - content and grateful.
- Be available.
- Nurture "hidden art", create and share beauty.
- Humbly share what I've learned - especially my mistakes and failures.
- Focus on encouraging others - particularly younger women.
- Look for ways to be helpful.
- Extend truck loads of grace to everyone.
- Approach each day with joyful laughter.
Lord willing and the creek don't rise - I'll expand on each of them further in the future. I'd be thrilled if you join me.
{Photos} Yellow last September in my Pollywog Creek backyard.
