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The longest route...

There is no easy way around it, sometimes I take the hardest possible route to get anywhere.   During our re-make of our house, I purchase bar stools.   Our counter island is tall and so I measured t – it was 36 inches from the ground.   Therefore I purchased 29 inch bar stools thinking they would be perfect…   And they would have been had I measured from the ground to the trim that lines the bottom of the 36”.   In reality, I had 29” to play with and the stools that I purchased were tight against the lip under the island.   I put one together and realized my folly.   Looking on-line, I didn’t find any more that were comparable to the price I had paid and the style that I wanted but were only 24” tall.   When my husband came home, we decided to put the other three stools together and just deal with them.   On Sunday morning, before church, my husband took the bar stools outside and proceeded to cut 5” off each leg to make us 24” bar stool...

Layers of Lessons

Today, I read the story of Jonah.   It was great to get into the word and read a familiar story, but I just didn’t feel like God was giving me anything in particular that I learned today.   I know, it is selfish of me to want God to teach me something new EVERY day, but I think if we look hard enough, God is everywhere.   So I read the story of Jonah and paused to reflect on it.   Really, my pausing was taping my kitchen to paint it and starting on the trim.   So I was still marinating on what God wanted to teach me as I went to get my kids.   Then I got home and started painting.   For about a year, I have wanted to paint one wall in my kitchen red.   I love red.   It is such a fantastic color.   It is bold, and vibrant and just makes me happy.   So I began, painting trim, rolling, trim, rolling, trim, rolling…   and the cycle continued.   It seemed like it was nearly impossible to get everything covered perfectly...