not hurrying..

My dad is off to work this week for the first time in 10 months.  Cancer's all gone! Hallelujah!

He never lost all his hair, there's some on his head right now..happy and healthy. Praise God!

Him and I will do another recital at the end of the summer.. I'm super pumped. Summer'll be the only time I get to dig into piano music..

:)

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second note:

So,

I'm reading The Life you've always wanted by John... something.. Ortberg? I think. it's been such perfect timing to read this.

"We must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from our lives."

Ah! it's easy to say now that I'm in my lawn chair outside in 75 degree sunshine and think of ways to slow down. It's easy to think that productivity, Type A and hurrying aren't directly related.. Hurry is sooooo embraced in our culture too! It was shocking to realize how I was in such a hurry to finish that page in the book!

Jesus spent much time in solitude before and after he hung out in town teaching and healing.

I guess for me, I've always just been shifting the balance to society- relax in the summer, work during the school year.  But after this year I find it's quite overwhelming to do this.  This effects everything that I do, and even much of my spiritual life.  The busyness made me literally designate time with God, but after my schedule started to fade around celebration week, my special time with God seemed it flew out the window.  I feel like I must diffuse a little of both into the whole year..mmm equilibrium (hehe).