In an ideal day of Kathy's ordinary life, it will look somewhat like this:
-5:00 Wake up, put on running shoes and shorts, go run
-6:00 Enjoy sunrise and God's creation. Enjoy breathing and heart beating.
-7:00 Healthy big breakfast. Shower. Coffee, Bible, quiet time
-8:00 play some tunes, more quiet time and more coffee
-9:00 walk around in the neighborhood, probably buying grocery or strolling through a farmer's market
-10:00 read a book under a tree, or in a pretty library
-11:00 start cooking and eating lunch
-1:00 clean up the house
-2:00 play piano, extended piano sesh
-4:00 writing cards and letters at a cafe, or my kitchen if I make it nice like a cafe. Sometimes I might bake a pie for myself or for friends, depends on how much I like my friends that day.
-6:00 light dinner food, while watching TV maybe
-7:00 play with my cats and dogs and turtles. I might play guitar for them. I might write a couple songs.
I might knit a scarf or make ice cream.
-9:00 bedtime. repeat.
Well this is not happening for a while. But it's okay.
And no, I don't work. All play.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Running
If there's anything I love about Berkeley, it'd be the endless scenic running routes.
People have been worrying for me because I go home so often. But really, it's not because I don't enjoy where I am. Berkeley has been good. I like it a lot, and I'm finding more reasons to like it everyday. It's not everywhere that I could run from the water to the mountains in one afternoon. From pizzeria to cafe to bakery, from cute boutiques to floral shops. It's a lot like the East Coast (in my imagination since I've never been), but with gorgeous weather.
How wonderful everything worked out. How wonderful that I stumbled upon the sport of running 6 years ago. How much I didn't enjoy it back then, how confused about everything I was back then. What is high school? What is cross country? What does it mean to be in America? Who are friends? How? Why am I here? Why is everything happening?
But God knew that I was going to need it. He knows running is the way that I am going to enjoy Him the most. And He sovereignly allowed everything to happen, to fall perfectly in its place.
Looking back now, I could give some answers to why things happened in my life, I could see traces of God's work in them. That is a good assurance and humbling reminders that my Heavenly Father knows best. I might know a little bit more now, I might be able to analyze my life thus far, but my knowledge is always so insufficient comparing to the mastermind behind all things.
"The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail."
-Isaian 58:11
People have been worrying for me because I go home so often. But really, it's not because I don't enjoy where I am. Berkeley has been good. I like it a lot, and I'm finding more reasons to like it everyday. It's not everywhere that I could run from the water to the mountains in one afternoon. From pizzeria to cafe to bakery, from cute boutiques to floral shops. It's a lot like the East Coast (in my imagination since I've never been), but with gorgeous weather.
How wonderful everything worked out. How wonderful that I stumbled upon the sport of running 6 years ago. How much I didn't enjoy it back then, how confused about everything I was back then. What is high school? What is cross country? What does it mean to be in America? Who are friends? How? Why am I here? Why is everything happening?
But God knew that I was going to need it. He knows running is the way that I am going to enjoy Him the most. And He sovereignly allowed everything to happen, to fall perfectly in its place.
Looking back now, I could give some answers to why things happened in my life, I could see traces of God's work in them. That is a good assurance and humbling reminders that my Heavenly Father knows best. I might know a little bit more now, I might be able to analyze my life thus far, but my knowledge is always so insufficient comparing to the mastermind behind all things.
"The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail."
-Isaian 58:11
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