7:52 Such wonderful response from so many people! Thank you, everyone for peeking in from time to time. I’m a fifth of the way there and am feeling wonderful and looking forward to the continued unfolding.

“The day job” was very demanding today. I’m tired in that way I get when I’ve been intensely engaged in graphic design. Lots of opportunity to be annoyed at clients who, unless they find their way to this blog, won’t know I think of my work for them as “the day job.” This is actually a very recent development. I’d say that it dates from when I was initiated as a candidate for the ministry which, as many of you know, happened in June. I’ve been a graphic designer for 56 years(!) — since I was five and I would help my father with his work putting together journals and books. I used to call book design “doing God’s work,” books being so sacred in the family I grew up in. Maybe if I were still in book publishing, I’d still feel that way about what I do to make money. I left to go have babies — a different sort of “God’s work” and when I went back to paid employment I just took whatever job arrived first — an ad agency for a while and then a trade magazine publishing company, which took me very far away from books and from putting my energies into things that I personally valued. I wish I’d known then what I know now. I wish I could have valued myself then the way I do now. As much as I try to not live in regret, I’m giving this voice as the feeling arises in me. I know it won’t linger, but there it is. I’m grateful that I value myself more now and am living in the faith that I am already engaged in the next right thing. “The day job” will have to fund me a little longer, but mostly, I am grateful to have a way of funding my life until the next thing emerges. For today, as I have my evening portion or kitcheri and update the blog, I notice that doing God’s work seems to be what I came in to this life to do.

Feeling so grateful for my life and for all the miracles I’ve witnessed and been the beneficiary of.