Why we need both: A Time for Waking and a Time for Resting.

Holding Hannah.

Friends and fellow travelers,

How are you doing in the middle of this heat wave? As you might have noticed there have been some weeks without a midweek blessing. I felt exhausted. It felt like the tension which had build up over the year of political and health crisis hit me with a hammer and left me looking for words. I searched for them by walking the gardens of our new home, cuddling with our baby daughter some more (who proudly announces that she is NOT a baby anymore) and retreating into planning a new year of Cloister Seminars.

I came across this photo from 2 years ago. It felt fitting for what I was experiencing. Exhaustion after a storm, like after having been cut open to deliver our child. But it was a healthy exhaustion. An important call for resting and retreating. Back then I was in pain from a severe carpal tunnel syndrome in both hands from the last months of pregnancy and it made it hard to hold my child and almost impossible to dress myself or close a butt…