Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

I have been so busy since mid March, it has been great stuff. It started with moving my aunt, then my youngest graduated from the Fire Academy then he moved out, our oldest and his wife celebrated their first anniversary and they bought and moved into their new house, we celebrated our 33rd anniversary and then we took our children on vacation to Colorado. In between what seems like everyone moving I have been manic about changing some things around in our house. When Chad moved he took the furniture in his room, and his bathroom stuff, I couldn’t stand the echo in his bathroom it sounded like my heart as this season of hands on mothering children changed to something new…. still trying to settle into this..whatever this new season is becoming.

As I have painted my dining room table, the bedrooms, a desk,changed the bathroom, and created a beautiful dreamy beach cottage guest room, I have have found myself busy.

I woke one morning with three words on my mind, busy, busyness, and business. Of course any of you that know me, know that sparked a search for what these three words mean and how are they different?

Busy: engaged in action, being in use, full of activity, activity as opposed to idleness or leisure.

Busyness: foolishly or intrusively active, full of distracting detail.

Business: Mission–what are you doing here? Serious activity requiring time and effort and usually the avoidance of distractions.

I have been busy. I don’t think I have been just distracted by busyness, maybe when I am trying for perfection or worried about the little details, but mostly just busy. I have to examine if I am using busyness as a distraction for the uneasyness of change or running from feeling the saddness of the empty nest? Maybe some, but mostly just busy. Busy with the growing life of a family, with adult children that have started lives and are enlarging our world outside the walls they were raised in. Sounds like I have also been about some business…. the business of releasing my sons to live productive lives and start making their way towards their futures.The business of refeathering our nest to meet our needs, so Bobby and I can move forward into our future as a couple with grown children and an empty nest…. with time to develope us again.

I keep thinking Jesus said “I must be about My Fathers business”….. I also want to be about my Fathers business as well….. living, loving, laughing…. applauding my sons in their lives, caring for the aging loved ones in our lives, and celebrating family and friends.

What is my business here? I have been busy about the business of living with my family. Not full of busyness and intrusively active, but full of activity,not idle,although there have been some wonderful moments of busy leisure.

I love the way my home is changing, even though change is hard. Some things we have needed to and wanted to change for a long time. This is the time….
It has been a season where we have all been busy changing.

Soon I will post some pics of the refeathering of my nest.

Busy,
Tanya