Routine

Dear Friends,

I was in the woods last week for the first time in a while, walking down a trail I had walked down countless times.

As I walked down that well-known trail, that trail I had walked countless times, I was thinking about routine.

Routine sometimes feels boring, right?  We get tired of the sameness, we get a little complacent, we might stop paying such close attention to what we’re doing.  We might get a little lazy in our routine.

Simultaneously, routine can be so deeply helpful.

A couple of months ago I got a little cold.  Nothing major, but seeing as I have a lot of activity in my week due to my work, I decided to back down from any extra activity in my week.  

One week turned into two, which turned into three.  Turns out, I had a really faithful routine going, and when I fell off that routine, I just fell hard…it felt so hard to get back on routine.  Every morning my alarm would go off, and my bed would be so warm, and I would be so tired, and those extra 45 minutes of sleep would feel so very enticing.

And on and on it went, for weeks and weeks.  Every morning I would argue with myself, and every morning my bed would win.

My dear friends, sometimes we can see clearly what we need to do, and it can still be so very hard to do it.  I wonder what it would feel like to practice a little more understanding, a little more grace with ourselves when we inevitably fall off the routine we had hoped to stay on.  My friends, I hope you can find your routine, but if you can’t, I hope you can find a little more grace and care for yourself this week.

Have an amazing week my friends.

Love
Krista
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