Rex started kindergarten on Monday the 24th and Grants started preschool the following Tuesday. I was excited, happy, and hopeful for both of them reaching these schooling milestones. But at the same time I was a little sad, scared, and worried about these schooling milestones for both of them. On Monday after we dropped Rex off Monday morning Grant and I went to do some errands and ended up at the park for a break from riding in shopping carts and carseats (for Grant). While Grant played I opened up a new devotional I signed up for on my Bible app and this was the devotion for the day:
a devotional excerpt from Savor
by: Shawna Niequist
"The idea of Bittersweet is changing the way I live, unraveling and reweaving the way I understand life. Bittersweet is the idea that in all things there is both something broken and something beautiful, that there is a sliver of lightness on even the darkest of nights, a shadow of hope in every heartbreak, and that rejoicing is no less rich when it contains a splinter of sadness. Bittersweet is the practice of believing that we really do need both the bitter and the sweet, and that a life of nothing but sweetness rots both your teeth and your soul. Bitter is what makes us strong, what forces us to push through, what helps us earn the lines on our faces and the calluses on our hands. Sweet is nice enough, but bittersweet is beautiful, nuanced, full of depth and complexity. Bittersweet is courageous, gutsy, earthy. So this is the work I'm doing now, and the work I invite you into: when life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow."
Seriously could that have been anymore amazingly, divinely, coincidentally relevant to how I was feeling that day! It took all my feelings of the morning and turned them into a organized, meaningful, poignant response.
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