Never Settle

Redecorating my heart I'm taking down the curtains and pulling back the shades.  It's time to get on my hands and knees for a good baseboard scrub.  It's spring cleaning.  The time of year when you open your windows to air out the mustiness of winter.  Birds are chirp and bees buzz while flowers burst up from a long winters nap. Most of the time my spring cleaning merges with a PCS (Permanent Change of Station, aka military move).  See when preparing for a move it forces me to clean and purge.  Curtains come down and washed, pictures get dusted, and drawers get cleaned out. Every PCS is unique, but the one commonality is all our stuff gets packed up and moved. Except the stuff we don't bring. The stuff we don't bring gets sold, donated, passed on, or thrown away.  The occasional left behind items get left behind because of their value...they're too important to risk the move.  Photo albums and family heirlooms, things of sentimental valu...

 JUST. My son asked me this afternoon, “mom, are you JUST a member now.”  I was taken back, wondering for a moment what he was talking about, when it dawned on me.  Today was the day that I crossed from the “doer” to the “undone” or “did.”  I passed the invisible torch of leadership. In a moments notice I went from being THE leader to JUST a member.  JUST an attender.  JUST a Bible study gal.  There isn’t any clout in being JUST a member.  Funny thing is, there is more to JUST than “just.”  I am JUST a mom and JUST a wife.  I am the one and only wife to my husband. I am more than JUST a companion to my husband that I love and care for. To my sick kid that I nurse back to health, I am more than JUST his/her mom.   I am JUST a friend.  BUT to the friend I encourage I am more than JUST an encouragement. I am MORE. I am more than JUST a member.  I am a daughter of the most high King of Kings and ...