Hopefully I am not alone in these untruths. Let me know, okay?
Also- Happy Friday! What do you have planned?
Lie #1: The Grocery Store I will just run in for five minutes. All we need is coffee, spinach, and butter.
Lie #2: Sticks and Stones I don’t care what people think of me. And gossip doesn’t hurt at all.
Lie #3: Tex Mex Health Kick I can eat all the chips and salsa I want and still wear skinny jeans.
Lie #4: Housework I am 100% caught up on ironing and dusting.
Lie #5: The Future is Certain. Solid as a Rock. We know exactly what life will look like a month, six months, and a year from now. We know how the turnpike construction will affect things, specifically.
Five lies. I tell myself this stuff all the time to get through the day. Or through the weeks and months. As silly as lies are, and as uncomfortable as the corresponding truths really are, the bottom lines are still pretty wonderful. Let’s focus on that instead:
Truth #1: We have all the food we need and a gorgeous menu ready to go at the farm. Plenty for friends to visit, too. Eating with our people? That’s our favorite. We are blessed to be healthy and well fed.
Truth #2: Living with a tender heart can actually be beautiful, no matter how much it hurts to be hurt. It opens us up to richer experiences and deeper relationships. Totally worth the risk. More importantly, being hurt by others reminds us to be more careful with others.
Truth #3: Tex Mex really should be its own food group. Actually, forget it. I don’t want to be however skinny I would be in a life without tortilla chips. So this is all positive. Never mind about this lie. : )
Truth #4: Our house is pretty clean. And we have enough of everything from day to day. And I will be caught up eventually. Not being perfectly caught up means that daily life is quite full and quite interesting lately. For this I am very grateful. Also, my miles running is up to date for the first time in a while and I am in the BEST MOOD. This is worth having dusty baseboards.
Truth #5: While we do not know exactly what life will look like in the future (and really, have we ever known?) we can trust with total calm that life will be okay. That we will be okay. Change is inevitable, faith matters, and sometimes having the controls taken out of our hands is good.
That said, please keep us in your prayers that we make the best decisions possible and stay happy, that God sort of sheds light and miracles all over this turnpike situation. And sign the petition to halt it if you are so inclined. As my husband wrote last night on Facebook, “If you have ever come to the farm and loved being here please sign this (petition) and share with your friends. Oklahoma needs to retain some of the wild lands; we don’t need highways running to nowhere. Life as we know it will completely change if something doesn’t stop.” Well, friends, you who read this blog are friends of the Lazy W even if you have never walked these nine acres with us. We sure appreciate your good thoughts. We will face a long series of heart breaking decisions if this turnpike comes to pass.
STILL, yes, faith and trust. Life is beautiful. God is good.
What lies do you tell yourself to get through the day? What’s on tap for your weekend?
We are running miles, building fence, watching movies, reading books, and cuddling our animals like there’s no tomorrow.
Thanks for stopping. As always.
XOXOXOXO
This is an amazing list of affirmations. Isn’t life pretty amazing when you take a look at it from a new perspective? An no skinny jean is worth the absence of chips and salsa.
I second this. I, too, struggle with the chips and salsa. And if guacamole is in the mix, well, forget about it.
AHHH the other day I bought a big pile of avocados on sale so I will be busy NOT resisting those all weekend. : ))
Thank you!! Yes to new perspective. The older I get the more easily I can adjust my view, and that’s nice. Thanks for reading Stefanie!
I’m glad you excused the skinny jeans lie, but I believe the lie is actually “only women with one kind of body can wear skinny jeans”. I think “skinny” jeans are for women of all sizes! All of them. And all those bodies are perfect and lovely and beautiful.
I am sorry about the turmoil the turnpike is causing you guys. I can begin to imagine the kind of stress it would be creating. Is it threatening to come awfully close to your land? Right through it? I will send love and light to this area of your life. xo.
You are right, for sure, about all sizes. I just know where I am most comfortable, you know? I also know I LOVE tortilla chips and pretty much all Tex Mex treats, haha!
Thank you so much Brittany. Thanks for your healthy outlook and for your good wishes about the turnpike. What’s meant to be will be beautiful. xoxo (to answer your question, yes it is almost certainly cutting our property in half, but also maybe cutting just in front of us, so the resulting living conditions could vary a LOT. I’ll keep you posted.)