Some accomplishments, progress and hope that comes there within

I need new vegan creamer... this morning tea needed a bit of umph 

and my creamer, it seems, is past due in age... hopefully will get one soon :) 

Swimming today... was good... I love being in water and in the sunshine...

and my sweet Husband got some Kombucha for me in NYC.

I ended up not going into NYC today, needed to be home.

It meant that I got to talk to my sister-friend and that was quite lovely,

and most needed!

After 2 years, I FINALLY got the lampadas (oil lamps by icons) 

totally cleaned - oil changed out, each saucer and lampada clean, 

lots of new (or strained with cheese cloth) oil in them.

I had them all lit today.

Some were long overdue; it's just with last summer's bedrest and then the rest of the this

year having so many varied difficulties + travel, 

I was never able to do them.

So I am so very glad they are now clean.

Isn't that quotation wonderful?

It's from the Healing Presence book.

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I finally got our home more or less clean and less cluttered.

That's a relief. 

I've been tired today, feeling a bit wrung out, 

as if yesterday was spent weeping and today

was the day after, with that tired emotionally drained feeling.

But I know that I can have better days ahead.

Grief means adjusting to 'new normal' and I do have some 

new grieving to do and that will take time. 

But I am also determined to find thankfulness, 

for I have more blessings than troubles and when I look at 

my pictures of my days, I see so many blessings.

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My Husband was a sweetheart and picked up 

takeout for dinner... 

That was a real blessing to me!

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I am hoping for a weekend with church family and 

more tea, quietness and preserving a now clean home...

of course more clean laundry needs to be put away and more washed...

but the kitchen is much cleaner, dishes are no longer piled up

(I did 2 loads yesterday and 1 the night before and 1 today...)

And I am so very thankful for all of this.