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When life gives you blueberries...
make yummy blueberry coffee cake...
and then a blueberry pie...
I wish it was always so easy, right?
I'm sitting in the kitchen with my 1 year old at 2:20am thinking about what I'm going to do with all these berries, not just the blue ones.
Lifes berries, God's berries. You know, the ones He hands you and says, "take good care". Or that good one about not eating it, or else...
Deciding what to do with my "berries" has me in a pickle.
We've been doing God's work, or at least we think we have and I'm feeling like we've given up on making pies and coffee cake out of our OWN berries, the ones we picked ourselves. (let me know if you're lost)
What I mean is that our life has become somewhat of a struggle for me, and Eric too.
Where will He send us, how much of this is for learning purposes, why here?
Eric is doing class work to finish up his schooling hopfully by next April and I've been helping in as many ways as I can. I read through his work and ask him, "is this what you need?". He's not sure either, but it gets him what they want.
I must stay focused on what we have and where we are and not get myself "down".
I can do this and I will.
But it is nice to dream about the future and what it might hold for our little family.
Got berries?
I do

Comments

Heidi said…
I'm going to read this to Nat when he gets home tonight. Thanks for reminding me to focus on our berries!
(That was the point, right? I got a little confused half way through:-))
August 24, 2009 at 10:39 AM
Kara said…
That is the point, I'm glad you followed it all the way to the end!
August 24, 2009 at 10:50 AM
SH said…
Our neighbor has a blueberry farm. I ate way too many berries this weekend. Oy.
Besides that, I love you.
August 24, 2009 at 11:00 AM
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