Daily 5 - Day 80

Today's Daily 5:

1. I'm thankful for fruit salad, made from fresh farmer's market fruit. Blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, nectarines and two kinds of apples. A huge bowl, so that I can just pop it in a container and munch on it all week.
2. I'm thankful that the mall was not nearly as overrun with halloween partiers as I expected. 'twas a pleasant relief after the many gross costumes and decorations at the farmers market.
3. I enjoyed a short nap this afternoon - much needed relief after a very draining day yesterday.
4. I'm thankful that it wasn't snowing or cold today as it so often is at this time of year.
5. I'm thankful for the feeling of hunger tonight. I still, after six months of very deliberately forcing some health issues and eating at least three meals a day, rarely feel hungry. I mostly eat because my watch tells me that it is time for the next meal, and the next set of supplements. The moments when I'm really feeling hungry, I tend to indulge with tasty treats. Tonight that included "pillow squares" - a favorite baked square that has these little "pillows" of lovely tasting dough baked on the tops of them... My mom made some and sent a few home with me, and oh, they're yummy.
   

Re-formation day

I love the name of the church holiday celebrated today. Reformation Day.

I'm not a huge fan of the schism that the events marked by Reformation Day created, but I love the idea of reformation. Of being re-formed.

I love that it comes the day before an anniversary I celebrate each year. (I'll talk more about that tomorrow.)

But today, I mostly love the idea of a do-over that being re-formed offers.

That fresh start. I love that offering of newness. I'm desperately hungry for it today.

And so today I'm thankful for that... for hundreds of years of chances to re-form, for a day dedicated to remembering that, for a Jesus who offered new life and fresh starts... for a God who compared himself to a potter, molding us into vessels for his use. And today I'm grateful for that mental image of malleable clay, being reshaped into something beautiful. And I pray for that for my life.