Here, is Good.8

[It's winter. Sometimes in winter, one needs to re-instate the series of Here is Good, 

 in order to remind oneself:  Here, [thank you] is Good.]

Sometimes, a beautifully sunshine day means: 

Get outside and feel it on your face.

But, sometimes, 

it means it's time for a dead-to-the-world Sunday nap,

curled up in the glow of it with your best old pal.

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[It's winter. Sometimes in winter, one needs to re-instate the series of Here is Good, 

 in order to remind oneself:  Here, [thank you] is Good.]

When February throws you a 63 degree Saturday, 

you take advantage of it.

 You set the bread dough to rising 

in the gleam of the glorious sun,

and you load cookies into your oven,

tray by abundant tray.

While the baking happens, you step outside to
take down the lights that you never had a moment for

[a moment that would have been 

raw-through-your-gloves cold, by the way]

and you haul out the rugs in order to mop all the 

boot prints that have collected over 

weeks and weeks of snowy salty slushy piano babies

dredging everything inside.

And when your neighbor calls for you,

and you happen to have just taken off your shoes?

You step out onto the porch,

barefoot.

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[It's winter. Sometimes in winter, one needs to re-instate the series of Here is Good, 

 in order to remind oneself:  Here, [thank you] is Good.]

Sometimes,

a pickle and a bagel are just the thing you need.

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[It's winter. Sometimes in winter, one needs to re-instate the series of Here is Good, 

 in order to remind oneself:  Here, [thank you] is Good.]

Attending a smart, engaging, and highly informed talk on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, where you understand the content more deeply because you were there just this summer.

Plus, you're sitting in between your uncle and a good old friend,

and you're wearing your new favorite coat that is more like a big soft blanket.

Oh, and it's your job.

Here, is Good.4

[It's winter. Sometimes in winter, one needs to re-instate the series of Here is Good, 

 in order to remind oneself:  Here, [thank you] is Good.]

To have a morning of:

 Worship Together.

To have a morning where you cannot help but notice: 

Look what God has done.

And then watch Him apply the Things that you taught

to your own self throughout your week.

To walk and breathe in Love.

Here, is Good.3

[It's winter. Sometimes in winter, one needs to re-instate the series of Here is Good, 

 in order to remind oneself:  Here, [thank you] is Good.]

Sometimes,

church-in-my-bed
is just the Treat I need.

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[It's winter. Sometimes in winter, one needs to re-instate the series of Here is Good, 

 in order to remind oneself:  Here, [thank you] is Good.]

After a Beautifully long day,

to laugh and to create

and to sit down together,

and to be loved even when I can barely 

keep it together enough to keep my head out of my plate...