Sometimes I have these romantic phases in my mind (okay, often) … and in those times I desperately wish everything would make sense together. Today, as I am going about the most random list of things “to do” I am taking mental lists of some of those wishes. Indulge!
- I wish, when I read a good book, I could be COMPLETELY in the book and not preoccupied with the desire to finish it, to know its contents, or to have a conversation about it later.
- I wish Simon and Garfunkel more regularly appeared on my “recently played” list.
- I wish my ambitions to be a neat and tidy person were more natural and less guilt-driven.
- I wish my distracted approach to projects yielded masterpieces like Picasso that everyone strangely admires, rather than disaster like the “derelict” fashion line in Zoolander that everyone pities.
- I wish my passion for people and causes could have a least common denominator… something I could refer to at the beginning of every day and then have an obvious, mathematical approach to deciphering the day’s greatest needs.
- I wish I could be in several places at once (typical super-human power, right?)… and actually FULLY be there in mind and heart.
- I wish steady, standard routine was not something I only wished and planned for… but something that HAPPENED consistently in my life.
- I wish I was less likely to order Diet Coke and more likely to order water.
- I wish I knew how NOT to be wasteful, but creatively thrifty to the max!
- I wish I wasn’t so good at making resolutions (though I always deny making them) and better at DOING.
- I wish I wasn’t so overwhelmed by all the good things going on the world, thinking I have to in some way be a part of all of them… and just be GLAD good things are happening (especially in the name of Jesus!)
- I wish overflowing love out my mouth was effortless.
Well, there are some wishes of mine, folks. Will some life-wish fairy grant me these? Nope. But, sometimes you just need to call a spade a spade in your life and face up to the wishes you are secretly wishing.
I hope you are all doing well, my friends, this fine Wednesday.
don’t forget to
let LOVE FLY like cRaZY
today!
MUSINGS IN THE MIDST 
#5- kind of like a spiritual triage? Where patients get sorted in order of type of injury? Hm…. interesting to think about.
I LOVE that you didn’t do what my mind did with this wish: DUH, Caroline… God is at the center. I know that’s the easy answer, but in practice so difficult. I looked up triage 🙂 and YES. kind of like that. Wouldn’t that be cool?
It’s so unlike me to read a blog, let alone respond to one. I couldn’t even find the comments icon.
But you are SO awesome friend. You put to words what others are afraid to admit they think. Honesty, I LOVE it!
JESS… I’m so proud of you! Now you’ve joined my mom on the hip and tech scale 🙂 just kidding.
thanks for the encouragement, friend. you are ONE of a kind, for sure!