It’s been a day. A wonderful day, but a day. I have so many thoughts running around in my head I cannot possibly put them into coherent words today, so I will leave you with a few random thoughts.
I love you. I’ve been reading some of my favorite bloggers this afternoon. Each one of them in their own way reminded me to pause and say “I Love You”. I say it for myself. I say it for my children. I say it for my husband. For my family. For my friends. For my students. For my community. For people far and wide. For humanity. Here is a great big hug to you from me in hopes that if you need just a little squeeze today to remind yourself that you are important and capable and worthy and loveable, this message reaches you!
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg’s message on her blog today took me to a previous article she wrote about Mr. Roger’s radical theology. She writes, “Not everybody has to be yelling in the street with a sign to make change.” She also writes, “There are profound ways to impact our world that, at first blush, don’t seem so radical at all.” Yes. We need Mr. Rogers. We need to bring him back into our living rooms and our hearts. He loved us all so well and we need his wisdom and guidance and love right now. We have hard things to talk about with each other, with our children, with our nation, with our global universe. We cannot speak truth unless we speak through love. His work of loving his neighbor was always a sacred task. (see link to website below)
Sarah Bessey reminded me today on her blog that doing ordinary work counts as something extraordinary. Sometimes ordinary work is all you can do when you don’t know what to do. Ordinary work on an ordinary day is sacred. Ordinary work is how we bear witness to one another and love one another and call for action for one another. It is sacrificial. It is love in action. (see link to website below)
So, I will do my ordinary work today and be grateful that I have ordinary work to do for ordinary people on an ordinary day because this is an extraordinary blessing to share. I will impact my world one person at a time in a small, simple ways. I will be love and light and hope, one “I love you” at a time. And for today, that will be enough.
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