I didn’t get my writing down when I usually do today.
I normally rise & shine with the birdies, and write early before my day gets full, before distractions rear their heads off the pillows 🙂 or my work shift starts.
I started a new medication to help me cope with a new to me condition which has hit me quite hard over the past month, and has been affecting me more than I like to admit emotionally.
Reluctantly I began taking it, and it has hit me wonderfully in one way (pain free) and left me hangry every 2-3 hours or sleepy enough I could sleep at a moment’s notice.
Neither of which makes for a fun wife, mom, friend or co-worker.
So I took it after dinner last night thinking that if I knocked the sleep portion off right away, I could wake up hungry & eat, and start the day wide eyed & bushy tailed as usual.
Not.so.
I woke up an hour late feeling like i had a hangover, needed another four-five hours sleep, and did I mention an hour later than usual?
So my whole routine has been off.all.day.
And that’s okay, because everything I have needed to get done gone done, just not when k thought it should.
Then I realized, I needed to give myself grace instead of judging myself too harshly.
Its okay to admit my day is not what ithought it would be.
Because in some ways I depended more on God than I usually do, and had some conversations I might have otherwise missed because of my early morning delay.
God wasn’t surprised or mad at me, so why should I be?
In the place of self judgment, I am offering myself the gift of grace today.
May He continue to remind me that all of us need grace in whatever place we find ourselves throughout our days.
PS. Thanks for being cool about me being late posting today 🙂
KARLA LEES 