things have been great in the campbell household lately.
a bit crazy, but....
i guess just busy. through the first phase of adjustment. onward and upward 8 months into it.
which we have gone in and out of business since our move, but some of this is a new kind of busy.
the kind where we are getting more ingrained, involved, committed to our life here. which is both great and kinda weird at times. but not weird very often. mostly great. i would say...70 to 30. :)
great, as in, full and blessed, but stretching and challenging more muscles. we are SO a work in progress, right! i have been able to use some of my strengths in new ways. i have also found things that used to come so naturally to me have gotten a bit rusty. and then there's the new things.
at times i feel like the cat in the hat balancing some plates while riding a unicycle with those crazy hair creatures waiting for the cue to come a juggle around me.
but then i talk to a couple of good friends from here and home who do WAY more than me, and have WAY more on their already full plate and i am reminded of how my plate can and should get bigger, even when the stretching hurts at first, it brings a usefulness and fullness to my life that is so empty when i am not willing and open with all of me. then i see the light, fall short, get stronger, get weaker, get inspired and am longing for the cohesive seamlessness in my sometimes disparate interests and life happenings...
but it's so good really. and i am so thankful for the pouring out of goodness.
my job has gotten better and easier. or maybe i have just gotten a bit better at my job. we have good friends here. the kind we would miss if we left. the kind that make us better people. more than we asked for or thought we could find after leaving what we left in ohio. (our standards are THROUGH the ROOF with the example of quality and quantity of friends and amazing people in cbus...)
we feel we are getting more direction with things we are currently doing, and want to do. we have a lot of questions, the kind that can't be answered just yet, or maybe will take a long time to answer. but we are trusting that those things will get figured out. (and in the moments of not trusting, we remember the trusting times, and try to remind ourselves to let go.)
but there's goodness that surpasses my not goodness. my not-feeling-it-today-want-to crawl-in-a hole-falling-so-short-feeling-overwhelmed days. my open hands but clenched fingers days. and that is so great. more great and any great that could be talked about. completely magnificent. and for this i am SO thankful.
(pics of when kirsta and kyle visited are above. they couldn't be more of the great things we are thankful for. one of the best things in our life.)
