Today I am Loving {157}

When it is a rainy day, and your work is portable.

Today I am Loving {156}

When it is 5:15 a.m., and you have already been wildly productive.

Today I am Loving {155}

When there is something just so comforting, 

about this simple morning treat.

Today I am Loving {154}

When the piano babies leave the house,  and you grab your left-overs and head up the street to the friend,  to sit and catch up, eat left-overs together,  look through her cookbooks for to-make recipes while she does her grading. 

Today I am Loving {153}

When it is a quiet Monday after a weekend of the working, and the air feels all officially fall-ish, you pull on your cozy pants and wrap yourself in your favorite sweater, and call the day: good.

Today I am Loving {152}

When your sweet cousin comes to town. 

Today I am Loving {151a}

When you have spent the day in the dark of a theater, film after film melting into your brain, and return home late to find the visiting cousin tucked and sleeping in her bed, and so you take a warm milk moment, to process.

Today I am Loving {151}

When you throw a film festival, 

and even though it means

you spend an entire day tucked in your corner of the theater,

you are glad when it fills the place with power and beauty

and all of the people are full of thoughts,

 and all are very happy.

Today I am Loving {150b}

When you have a night out in the country,

in the charming abode

of the house sitting friend,

and return home to find the moth, 

awoken from his coma. 

Today I am Loving {150a}

When you worked valiantly to rescue the moth buzzing around your bedroom, by getting him safely into this mug from which you had just finished  your evening toddy of warm milk and booze...

 ...and find him in the morning...

...alcohol poisoned?

Today I am Loving {150}

When morning paints the sky.

Today I am Loving {149b}

When two roads sat before you, the "love me" one and the less traveled one, and you saw the Light to travel by, saw it does, 

make all the Difference.

"We must know exactly when we say yes to God what is in that yes. 

Yes means "I surrender," totally, fully, without any counting the cost, 

without any examination: "Is it all right? Is it convenient?" 

Our yes to God is without any reservations."

[Mother Theresa]

Today I am Loving {149a}

When a deviation from your very responsible menu planning 

is clearly a better idea.

Today I am Loving {149}

When the unexpected phone call from the moved away friend occurs at the same time as the texting of this Psalm from an unexpected source, and you breathe in, power and rest, on a day that has you strained.

Today I am Loving {148}

When that girl you adore sends you a letter (through the mail and wrapped in a bow of twine no less), telling you all her great desires (though she is, it would seem, "open to any suggestions").

Today I am Loving {147}

 When gossamer strands glimmer in the waking fog,

flickering in the still-point breeze, this turning world.

Today I am Loving {146}

When Monday morning feels cruel, there is Hope.

Today I am Loving {145}

When He leads you, straight to sabbatical.

Today I am Loving {144b}

When there is no place like informal being with dear ones.

Today I am Loving {144a}

When there are the remains of one season,

and the glimpses of the next.

Today I am Loving {144}

When you are a nerd, and menu planning is your deal.

Today I am Loving {143a}

When it occurs to you that, yes, you have changed and in the same same places, time and sanctifying time, again.

Today I am Loving {143}

When there is a night for the quiet decompress cooking.

Today I am Loving {142a}

When you need a little help from your friends.

Today I am Loving {142}

When you have had a night of the battle dreaming,

there is comfort in the morning coffee, hood-up hoodie, 

and newly arrived plaid slippers.

Today I am Loving {141b}

When you are checking on your pond, and notice that one of your frogs is playing on the Rocks, while the other still sits in the plant, and then suddenly there is a leap from near your foot and a dive into the water, and all you see are scissor kicks.

Today I am Loving {141a}

When there is this,

so ridiculous and yet so beautiful:

Today I am Loving {141}

When you wake up in the morning and stumble down the stairs headed to the coffee, sidetracked by a glimpse in the mirror and your hair, in righteous mess.

Today I am Loving {140a}

When the sweet boy enters your kitchen holding his book, walks right past you and your "hey," and sits down at your table totally absorbed, you leave him to it and flutter about, gathering together a few remaining objects necessary for the learning day; when five minutes into it you lean on the table next to him, to write down some things, and not a peep from him, and so you walk away and then past again and only then does he look slightly up, and only then does he say, 

"oh hey Miss Lauren, we were early, so I just thought I'd read," 

so sweet, so simple, as if he's happily surprised to find you there.

Today I am Loving {140}

When He teaches  you of the boundlessness of abiding abounding, beyond long and ever always lasting, Love.

Today I am Loving {139}

 When there are left-over carbs and cheese for lunch,

and left-over carbs and cheese for dinner,

and all were made with and for friends,

and all were most delicious.