Snap To It

After yesterday we needed to activate.

We took the boys to church. We looked at lights for the space above our dining table (we love the light fixture it just doesn’t have enough light for the winters). We unpacked more of the basement. We shopped for groceries. We moved. We rearranged. We organized.

It’s okay to have a day where you fly below the radar, but snapping back to it is just as critical.

At least for me.

I have gotten swept under by the blues, the sadness, the why’s. When I call a friend, a sister, my dad, a brother in tears because I am overwhelmed, I know that around the corner I need to find a ladder out.

Step ladders sometimes, but there are times I need the long ladder the fire trucks carry.

Once I’m moving up the ladder and out it’s usually best I don’t look back. The blues are beautiful and dramatic in their desolate ways. Blues and greens waving poetically. The appeal is hard to pull away from, until I do, and I’m far enough away.

So I move today. Up, out, and above ground. I take a deep breath of fresh air and sunshine and I am reminded, it is better to break free from the lovely darkness so I can live completely.