I am...

I am…

• Wearing mostly new clothes with a favorite old sweater on top.

• Glad that tomorrow is Friday

• Perpetually curious

• Bad at sleeping

• Often tired

• A lover of many things green

• Convinced that you are happier when you wear color and variety, than when you wear only black and white, or a uniform

• One who has experienced healing

• One who longs to see healing worked in the lives of others

• A perpetual book buyer

• The owner of well over a thousand volumes (and growing!)

• One who reads with a pen in hand, marking all my favorite bits for easy access later on

• Addicted to memoirs

• Constantly thinking out loud

• Easily distracted

• More likely to drink water than just about anything (except perhaps tea)

• A lover of beauty

• Short (or more nicely put, petite)

• Going to Malta in two weeks

• Rebooking my plane ticket from Malta to London, to let me spend a few days with friends in London before returning to Canada

• A control freak

• In love with cute shoes

• Unable to pass up a bargain

• Convinced that milk chocolate is how chocolate was meant to be – creamy and sweet, and that dark chocolate is just a bit too medicinal to truly be considered chocolate

• A person with texture and smell issues when it comes to food

• A lover of Jesus

• An occasional mystic

• Completely pragmatic

• A loner who loves people

• An introvert who eventually gets tired of herself

• A television lover for the way it (usually) lets me disengage my over-active brain for an hour or two

• More likely to fall asleep if there is a book on tape playing nearby

• Fond of simple things

• A daughter

• A sister

• A granddaughter

• A cousin

• A friend

• An (occasional) writer

• Happily single (with rare exceptions)

• Not a lover of children (with five exceptions and room for more as certain friends begin having families)

• Good at my job (but ready for a break from it)

• Currently sporting shorter hair than I have in a while and dyed eyelashes

• A fan of clean clothes and sheets, but a loather of doing laundry (well, actually, folding laundry) and changing sheets

• Part of a crazy inter-connected group of people spread across the country who love to pray

• At turns quiet and at turns very, very loud

• A lover of U2

• Rather tone deaf, and unlikely to be caught singing where you can hear me

• Completely convinced that singing along with the radio while driving alone is the only way to go

• A country music fan

• Intuitive

• One who cares deeply

• Eventually going to get a masters degree from a seminary in counseling

• A dreamer

• Loved

• Learning what it means to be thankful on a daily basis

• Slightly odd

• Completely sarcastic in a deadpan sort of way in all the wrong moments

• Constantly having to explain that I was being sarcastic when someone takes an outrageous deadpan remark of mine seriously

• An idealist

• happiest when I'm comfortable

• constantly being stretched

• learning to be okay with things that I've known are true about myself for a very long time

• a lover of truth

• often accused of being blunt

• not always quick enough to filter the thoughts before they burst out of my lips

• not usually a poet or a reader of poetry, but every once in a while something fantastic comes along, and I read it, or write it, and fall in love with words and poetry and beauty all over again.
  

• at rest, peaceful and filled with joy tonight.