Here’s three quick thoughts while I am on my hiatus:
#1 - 75% of bathrooms on our trip did not have a hook for the purse in the bathroom stall. Strike #1 on the purse. And this particular purse with the drawstring top and the awkward to close snap does not make it easy to find keys in the bottom of said purse. Strike #2 for the purse. (This life change experiment is not going well.)
#2 - Dropped Caleb off. It was a little emotional, but we survived. This morning I read his blog and thought that if I had learned what he learned yesterday (at the age of 18 ) instead of getting to maybe 38 before I learned it, that a lot of pain and wasted effort would have been eliminated from my life. Read his blog here.
#3 Here are my results from the “personality” test. I am a contemplative, ascetic. Which I think is funny, because this sounds a lot like a person who joins a convent, and I told my dad that he could count on two things in my life. #1 I would never join the army and #2 that I would never join a convent. Now I just sit around and think, “Why won’t everyone just leave me alone, so I can go pray?”
Contemplative - Loving God through Adoration:
These Christians seek to love God with the purest, deepest, and brightest love imaginable. They want nothing more than some privacy and quiet to gaze upon the face of their heavenly Lover and give all of themselves to God.
Ascetic - Loving God in Solitude and Simplicity:
Ascetics want nothing more than to be left alone in prayer. Let there be nothing to distract them–no pictures, no loud music–and leave them alone to pray in silence and simplicity.