Comfort

As of where I am at this very second, I am comfortable. It's 5:57 a.m. on a wintry Friday morning. I'm sitting by my roaring gas powered fire with a warm cup of coffee. My happiness is completely undeniable. I normally do this every morning (not in this particular setting of course.)
I wake up early.
I enjoy the quiet. I wake up and absorb the silence that I don't always receive during the day. In a world that gets consistently more chaotic and noisy on a day-to-day basis, this quiet is special to me. I look forward to it. It's normally just a short 30 minutes, or perhaps longer on special occasions (no school today! :) but the time adds up. My thoughts are pieces of a 5,000 piece jigsaw puzzle, and this is my half-hour to piece it together. Psalms 46:10 says to "Be still and know that I am God." This time has not only become my hour of undisturbed peace, but also an hour to spend with my sweet Jesus whose favorite tone of voice is a gentle whisper. Isn't there a simple lesson in that? Are the quality of our daily conversations losing their beautiful purpose with the louder our voices get? I've been progressively learning how unimportant shallow daily conversations are becoming. Sure, I know what my best friend ate for lunch today, but do I stop and ask what made her the happiest? Not always, and my goal for the next few weeks is to practice this idea. To dip below the surface, even just for a little while (not consistently of course, that might be intruding and weird to the general population)

On a more ridiculous note,
this is my 10th day of being completely vegan. I've made it thus far! And thus animal product free :) it's all about my 2010 cleansing. Like I said in my previous post, it's important to me to begin this decade with a cleanse. What better way than to lessen my processed, unclean, mass produced in take?

May you all feel comfortable on this wonderful Snow Day,

-K