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I'll learn to get by
On the little victories


Lately the days don't seem to have enough hours and my body lacks enough energy to finish all the lists I create in my head. Even at work, I go home with a list of where to pick up tomorrow. My holes of free time are filled easily. But I am learning, through a great deal of struggling, that the lists are only lists and the successes of the day matter less and less compared to those moments when I feel connected with something greater than myself, whether it is alone, praying before a meal at the dinner table, reading my devotional before bed, or talking with new and old friends about such things. Connections come in and out and I am overjoyed, sometimes sad, and sometimes frustrated, but never unaware that even in the sadness the gifts of the day are overflowing. No matter how little.