It has been a full week, like a suitcase stuffed.

My brain feels like I feel when I open the lid of this suitcase and see two piles, one side clean, one side ready for laundry, but maybe those are two piles. Wait, did I already wear that? Where are the clean socks? What’s the weather going to be like? Why didn’t I pack warmer clothes? Oh no, I forgot to bring that undershirt.

Yeah, that is what my brain feels like.

While my brain has been a stuffed suitcase of work and being away from the peace and quiet of home, Sam has been in beautiful Palm Beach…not to visit the president at the southern white house, but to enjoy some pretty cars, time with a couple of great friends, and do something he’s always wanted to do.

I am grateful for friends who create special memories.

I am grateful for the regularity now of packing and living out of a suitcase.

I am grateful for a reprieve from cancer.

I am grateful for access to online devotions and bible reading.

I am grateful for a corner office with a big window that awaits my arrival every month.

I am grateful for very sore legs after climbing lots and lots and lots and lots of office building stairs with an exercise-obsessed boss.

I am grateful for a break from social media and texting.

I am grateful for a clean pickup.

I am grateful for a Saturday to just do whatever I wanted to do, for a pickup full of plants, for a beautiful sky when I walked out of the store tonight, and for the anticipation of my husband returning “home” tonight.

And I am grateful the suitcase will be put away for 5 days tomorrow before it is needed again. My brain is ready to go home.

¹ The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.
    The world and all its people belong to him.
² For he laid the earth’s foundation on the seas
    and built it on the ocean depths. Psalm 24:1-2