content to linger

so i'm around babies all the time now. i haven't gotten sick of it - i've only started becoming even more obsessed with them. to the point where i'm with one all day, come home to watch videos of my sweet niece, and then beg to hold any other ones i see. it doesn't help that i live in a predominately dominican neighborhood where the adorable babies flow like 26" inseams at a home school convention.

and married & engaged people. i've been around them a lot lately too. and as much as i love them, sometimes there is no better feeling then walking out of the middle of an argument between them knowing you can go anywhere and do whatever the H you want.

even in the midst of all this living other life-ness, it is easy for me to feel like i am missing something because i lack aspects of the aforementioned. it's also easy for me to feel like those things will never happen. but here's the difference for me now as opposed to a year ago. i'm great.

i'm so ridiculously drenched in the comfort of knowing i'm where i am is where i'm supposed to be. and who i'm doing life with - they are just the right people. in a lot of ways i felt like moving here was like making pasta. and i'm the strainer. i just wanted to see who would fall through the holes and who would stick with me. shut it, i've never claimed to be good at analogies.

isaiah 26:8 - we're in no hurry, God. we're content to linger in the path sign-posted with your decisions. who you are and what you've done are all we ever want.

amen and amen.

p.s. my next post will be a heartfelt commentary on the announcement of the newest addition to the [mark & jamie] abare family: baby bare 2! duh duh duh...