As someone who loved to garden and go backpacking and refinish furniture and restore our old house, I so understand the difficulty in deciding how to spend your day’s miniscule allotment of energy. If I skip my shower today, perhaps I’ll be able to get groceries by myself and save my husband from that chore.

As raising my arms above my head is impossible on some days, I recently got my hair cut – really, really short. It shortens my shower, and needs no blowdrying, which leaves a little extra energy for something else.

One benefit of all this is that I have been forced to prioritize my life. What is important enough today to give up everything else on the list? Another is that I am blessed with hours and hours in the Bible and in prayer. Not only do I have guilt-free time to form the question, I have the quiet to hear the answer.

You are in my prayers.

~Nicole