Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the
step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number
on the
scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting
fears, in the all of a life.
If you've been trying to lose weight
on any diet plan, chances are you may have been advised to not
step on a
scale for
fear of jeopardizing your weight loss.
A new trend called
Fear Free, aimed at reducing the stress of veterinary visits
on pets, depends
on owners training their pets to become familiar with travel carriers, to willingly
step on a
scale, allow strangers to handle them and take medicine from a syringe.