Well...it's been a while. I was reminded today that I have not been blogging for a long while...which caused me some reflection.
It has been quite a year for me, and I have failed to document it in any real form. My excuse is that I really don't sit and write anymore. I used to do it for fun! Those days are gone. It's not that I don't enjoy writing...I just don't enjoy sitting for very long! I feel that there are so many things I need to do with the time I have been given.
Sometimes I do feel like I am living on borrowed time. That's a story for another day.
But, I digress.
As many of you may know, I went through a divorce this last year, which was final in June. It has been an interesting and genuinely inexplicable growing experience for me. It has given my life a new pain, but also a new joy I wouldn't have been able to experience otherwise. I have felt a lifting of burdens and a new exuberance for life that I didn't know I could have. I feel that I should thank my ex-husband for the exemplary way he has handled a very difficult decision with kindness and understanding that I didn't expect from him. If all ex-husbands (or wives) to-be could follow his example, the world would be a much happier place.
My children have also been more than supportive to both of us. Offering us love and gentleness through the entire process. No one has had to take sides, or watch their parents belittle each other through any of this. For that I will always be grateful.
I have continued to work in the fabric industry, designing fabric for Riley Blake Designs, but also I have been working in the Draper warehouse/office which has enabled me to make many new friends and associates who have enriched my life a great deal. I have laughed... and cried...more in this year than I have in a very long time. Which I am grateful for. Emotion is good. At least it is for me.
I am reminded that I have much to be grateful for...my parents are still living, my children are healthy and wonderful, I am relatively healthy (for a 53 year old), I have the love and support of my family and many wonderful friends, and life is beautiful and full of many good things!
As we all embark on a new year, I hope we all look forward to good days ahead. Happy days, full of awe at how the Lord blesses us when we turn to him. Of course there will also be difficult days, because that is what life is all about. Opposition...good and bad, happy and sad, is what life here is made of. But I hope that through all of it, we can determine to live with love and patience and understanding of others, as well as ourselves. Sometimes that is the hardest thing to do.
I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas, or a happy "whatever-you-celebrate" at this time of year!
Love,
Lila
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It has been quite a year for me, and I have failed to document it in any real form. My excuse is that I really don't sit and write anymore. I used to do it for fun! Those days are gone. It's not that I don't enjoy writing...I just don't enjoy sitting for very long! I feel that there are so many things I need to do with the time I have been given.
Sometimes I do feel like I am living on borrowed time. That's a story for another day.
But, I digress.
As many of you may know, I went through a divorce this last year, which was final in June. It has been an interesting and genuinely inexplicable growing experience for me. It has given my life a new pain, but also a new joy I wouldn't have been able to experience otherwise. I have felt a lifting of burdens and a new exuberance for life that I didn't know I could have. I feel that I should thank my ex-husband for the exemplary way he has handled a very difficult decision with kindness and understanding that I didn't expect from him. If all ex-husbands (or wives) to-be could follow his example, the world would be a much happier place.
My children have also been more than supportive to both of us. Offering us love and gentleness through the entire process. No one has had to take sides, or watch their parents belittle each other through any of this. For that I will always be grateful.
I have continued to work in the fabric industry, designing fabric for Riley Blake Designs, but also I have been working in the Draper warehouse/office which has enabled me to make many new friends and associates who have enriched my life a great deal. I have laughed... and cried...more in this year than I have in a very long time. Which I am grateful for. Emotion is good. At least it is for me.
I am reminded that I have much to be grateful for...my parents are still living, my children are healthy and wonderful, I am relatively healthy (for a 53 year old), I have the love and support of my family and many wonderful friends, and life is beautiful and full of many good things!
As we all embark on a new year, I hope we all look forward to good days ahead. Happy days, full of awe at how the Lord blesses us when we turn to him. Of course there will also be difficult days, because that is what life is all about. Opposition...good and bad, happy and sad, is what life here is made of. But I hope that through all of it, we can determine to live with love and patience and understanding of others, as well as ourselves. Sometimes that is the hardest thing to do.
I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas, or a happy "whatever-you-celebrate" at this time of year!
Love,
Lila
