One Fine Day

This pretty much sums up how I feel about my day off - rock.star.

This morning's thoughts from my orange journal:

This day is beautiful. An innocent gift from God. Sleeping in, making breakfast, watching juvenille movies about hope, and painting...glorious frame painting.

It's beautiful outside. I'm eating cheese. Lord, I really like cheese - and the fact that my trees are blooming. The red ones are like my own personal cherry blossoms. What a gift.

The glorious thing is that you bless me like this every day...I'm just too blind or busy to see it. Thank you for simplicity. For my iPod and music. Thank you for turkey sandwiches, Reese's peanut butter eggs, Easter, acryclic paints, Prince, my bible, The Father of the Bride, and Georgia O'Keeffe. For Cass, Courtney, Elena, Kelli, Elizabeth, Sarah, Julius, Antony. My parents, my brother, Audrey Hepburn, sunshine, sharpies, vintage purses and dresses, hummus, vegetables, bananas, coffee, and everything else you've ordained for my pleasure.

Thank you. Thank you, Yahweh.

Yup. I'm in a supercalifragalistic-type of good mood. Life rules. I'm so lucky. So blessed. So ready to party tomorrow night! I can't wait to see you all at Upendo. I've been busily preparing with a stellar team of friends that believe in the future of Africa as much as I do. I'm amazed by people's generosity, and I can't wait for God to blow my mind tomorrow night.

So, I've spent today just resting. Resting in the promise that anything God ordains will succeed. I'm not sure what success will look like, but I can't wait to be surprised, and watch people smiling, eating, laughing, dancing and loving each other.

This party definitely has a purpose, but I hope that it extends beyond simply collecting the financial provision for my trip. I pray it inspires hope, community and love and that it will make even the busiest person pause to see how good life is when you slow down.

So, I hope you'll all be there tomorrow, with bells on, ready to shake it and laugh...and give me a big hug while we celebrate Upendo's success :)

"What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all - how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?" Romans 8:31-32