Yesterday was a day of “getting things done”.  I had a laundry list starting in the morning with work for my consulting and then to get tires on my car, meet up with a Celebrate Recovery young man, get my pickup from my daughter for today’s use, and finally spending the evening with my grandson for his birthday.  It was our evening for dinner and a movie.  He and I love superheroes so we got to be one for about 4 hours.  That should hold us over for a little while.

It seems the lessons of the greenhouse and its subsequent lessons are coming to a close.  This morning I was able to reflect on the past week and see some big steps God has brought me through.  It seems I’ve been able to let go of the need to “be like my brothers or like my dad,” to help others as they do or did, and that I don’t need to be like them in order to be worthwhile to man and God.  This is something man has told me for many years, but I now know telling rarely teaches the lesson.  (I know this in a school setting and a life setting is no different).  We have to walk through the learning in order for the learning to finally take hold and become owned.  This is what God has done for me this week.  That yearning/longing to be something I’m not is gone and the peace of being who I am is present.  I’d like to think this is permanent but I know I’m still a man so the journey may still have some hiccups with this–however, for the present, I’m truly grateful that God has brought me to this point of understanding and peace.

So, today I get to go to a 3 hour choir rehearsal preparing for Christmas and the rest of the day is mine.  It’ll be a grandpa day taking pumpkins to the grandkids and squash to the mom’s for winter feeding.  I enjoy this.  It’s one of the many pleasures I get from gardening.  God is so good!