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Well, this is just to say I was halfway through writing a wonderful blog post today with truly inspired words pouring onto the screen while the children napped . . . and I accidentally deleted all of it with no draft saved. Poof! Vanished! Irretrievable! An hour spent on words I loved, gone! What a kick in the gut!
I actually cried . . . and now I'm here, boiling shrimp and potatoes and corn for dinner and it's taking an eternally long time. So I thought I might as well get back in the saddle rather than resigning blogging for evermore. Through my tears, I did ask God why that effort had to be wasted (and I didn't even ask God why we had to have our RSV hospital stay . . . trivial sufferings are usually impossible bear while we shoulder enormous ones with a decent amount of courage) but after thinking about it and wiping my nose, I realized how many afternoons I've wasted the time I could have been writing or doing anything creative with social media or other brain candy, and how I utterly took for granted the time I had today to write. So, a little more humbly, I will press on and write other things and leave those words unwritten - or, as my husband said with a fond if slightly teasing smile as I mourned my loss over our afternoon tea, "They're meant to only be in your heart."
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MaryWife to my best friend. Mama to a gregarious 3yo boy, a determined 18mo daughter, a darling baby boy due in late July, and a miscarried child we gave back to God. (photos are from Unsplash unless I note they're mine :)
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