you wake up and you Just Know– before you even open your eyes– that you didn’t get enough sleep.
you really hate your new haircut.
you eat a breakfast that is simply overloaded with sugar, and you don’t usually do that, and then you pay for it.
your car has something Really Wrong with it.
are composed Almost Entirely of things you aren’t good at.
people are insensitive or neglectful or mean.
you suddenly really miss (again) being with your children and want to homeschool again.
you hate the fact that you have a Really Poor Sense of direction.
you feel pretty sure that you lack All Discretion and Wisdom.
you lose your keys, only they aren’t your keys because you can’t drive your car because something is wrong with it so you are borrowing someone else’s car and they are his keys you’ve lost for a pretty wretched two minutes and when you find them again you also realize that the keys were taken from you as a joke when you weren’t paying attention and so you feel pretty stupid about the Entire Thing.
the music and the voices are All too loud.
you feel left out.
you are One Big Allergy.
you feel like the amount of work you have to do is really and truly Too Much.
your skin looks simultaneously as if it belongs to a thirteen-year-old AND a seventy-year-old.
you want to abandon all responsibility when you get home and just Take A Nap.
crying is the Thing To Do.
you miss the Old Days.
a dark and silent room sounds like a Really Good Idea.
you read this when you get home from work: “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight…. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding…. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge– that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 1: 3-4 and 3: 17-19
