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Keep Calm and Eat Donuts...

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What a weird, whacky season this has been.   I'm sorry - it's just been a ... messy .... season. Finding moments of joy in a season of sorrow.   Wanting to GIVE joy and comfort when my storehouse of joy and comfort feels dry. Loving the gentleness of Jesus at the same time as having (what feels like) an open wound on my heart. When my dad died a few months ago, I gained 20 pounds.  They weren't fun moments of comfort food pounds.  They were middle-age, stress-reaction, not-really-eating,  bummed-from-watching-my dad in pain pounds. I have evidently proudly embraced those pounds through the passing of my mom a couple of weeks ago.  This time I figured I'd add a few donuts to my moments so there would be a fun reason to look like I did when I was pregnant 30 years ago! I think a donut is better to eat than a piece of cake - it has a big hole in the middle of it, for goodness sake.  It's almost a diet food.  Logically, eating donut holes are al