Shifted....

Do you feel your heart changing with the seasons...

I think I do.

Maybe it's just time passing.

Nothing stays the same.  Ever. 

We are always moving...

either forward...or backward...but always moving.

This time of year I feel the moving...

this year fall has felt like something of a lurch forward.

A second grader and newly minted kindergartener are now in the house.

My heart feels a little confused...unsettled by it all.  

I am so happy for a routine, a cleared out house a few afternoons a week.

But I have a SECOND grader and a KINDERGARTENER...

what next...

college?

It's like life just blew in and rustled everything from it's place,

swirled it around the room...and now I am waiting for it to find it's new home and settle back down in my heart.  

It just feels...different.  Not quite right.  

I'm afraid I need and extra dose of patients for everything and everyone while all settles into place.

It's just the season...I tell you it is...

it's watering the garden, still picking tomatoes and planting one last round of spinach...

all while buying long sleeve shirts and sitting in the pick up and drop off line at school.

In my heart I am ready for scarfs and pumpkins....

while I sit in shorts and edit pictures of summer vacation.

May there always be room in your heart for change...

for a shift...

for a re-settling of things.

You just never know when you may need one...

a shift...

an adjustment to things...

the seasons

your heart

one's attitude

perspective

May change be gentle on you...

may you be ready...

open...