I suppose it's time to quench my readers' hungry appetites. I think of blogging, read others' blogs, even go so far as to leave comments. But when I think of actually writing a post, words escape me. Or should I say...we're just not doing anything that seems worthy of writing an entire post about! Oh sure, we're busy. We have had things planned for almost every day that Daryl has been gone. Just nothing that seems worth my time to sit and write about. Sometimes I just gotta make myself write about the little things.
I keep comforting myself in something I heard on CBC the other day. They had a photographer/filmmaker on, talking about the case of the Amish people who won't let their picture be taken for US identification. (I don't have time to look up a website and put a link. Sorry) But anyway, she said that of everything she photographs, her family is what she takes the least amount of pictures of. She was encouraging us to get back to telling our history through stories, and letting kids live on the memories of their imaginations. Obviously she is a photographer, and does take pictures of her family. But she was saying that we, as North Americans especially, are in a "moment" and when we take a picture, we have to step out of that moment, so to speak, to preserve it. We forget to live in the moment because we're so busy trying to preserve it, thinking about how we'll frame it, scrapbook it, or blog it. And how wonderful when we can show others this picture and tell them what we did!
Well, truth be told, I know exactly what she's talking about! Do you? Sometimes I read others' blogs, or look at others' photo albums, or the pictures on their walls, and think, "Boy, I really gotta start living [so that I can frame great pictures like that too!]" Or I think, "We did something just as cool as that, I just forgot to frame it, and now I don't get to show anyone what we did" WHO CARES!?! Does the memory live on in your minds' eye? Do your children remember laughing with you until you were all crying? That's all that matters.
Don't worry, I'm not pointing fingers at any of you. I'm just pointing one at myself. This week I actually told myself not to take a picture of something the girls and I did together. Just do it. Don't freeze it. Just live it. Enjoy it. I will still take pictures. I will still blog pictures. I will still frame, and photo album, and whatever. But live in the moment, and don't ever be jealous of someone else's "life". They're probably jealous of yours, too.
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wow, Robyn, I'm not sure why you say you don't have anything to blog about! What a good reminder. Lately I've been feeling the need to let the dishes sit, and whatever else needs done so that I can sit and watch Isaiah play or read him a book. I find those moments and memories are much more rewarding than a clean house. Thanks for the good word!
thanks for making me feel better about my lack of meaningful documentation lately. :) I have been feeling so guilty about the fact that I don't measure or weigh my kids regularly, write down their cute sayings or their milestones in any sort of organized fashion or have portraits taken twice a year. sigh.
just curious, what's your spiritual gift(s)?
true, true. i can't say i've been guilty of taking too many pictures ever, but good word.
Rhonda, does your asking about my spiritual gifts have anything to do with this post? I'm very curious. They are encouragement, counselling, mercy. Then the lesser ones are hospitality, shepherding, serving.
Robyn, did you have a book or something you studied to determine your giftings?
Yeah, in our church everyone who wants to serve in any position has to take a thing called Servanthood Profile. It's really good because it determines your gifts, passions and abilities. A lot of the stuff is taken from Bill Hybels/Willow Creek stuff.
thanks for the reminder. I know many times I am so worried about making sure we get all the pictures taken so we can remember what we did. Tonight we took fruit baskets to all of our neighbors for Christmas and I didn't take one picture. :) It has been a tradition for us every year to take cookies or carmel popcorn to all of our neighbors,but this year we decided to do fruit baskets. Yes, it was early this year, but we wanted to give out invitations to our church's christmas banquet which is coming up soon. Merry christmas everybody I am getting in the Christmas mood, but a little bit of snow would help and not high 60's.
yeah, because I thought it was a good exhortation. :)
I think that the counselling and shepherding would explain it. :)
WHat a good reminder robyn!
I am guilty of doing that...always want to capture the moment on film because i don't trust my memory and i'm afraid my kids will forget. But then again, i'm the one always taking the pictures, so i'm not in any of them. My kids will look at the pics and say "where was mom?" Ha ha.
JENN
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