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It\u2019s Thankful Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Last night I left my child in the care of a new friend and joined my husband in a home full of acquaintances, drawn by our common love for teenagers. We were there to hear from an older couple who are legends in the ministry I worked for (professionally and as a volunteer) for the past eight years. Bob and Claudia spoke about their lives helping establish Young Life in the fifties, loving kids, and watching miraculous things happen to broken young people.<\/p>\n

As we mingled after the meeting, I came into conversation with Claudia, who eventually set aside general niceties, placed her hand on my arm and asked how I felt about leaving Young Life staff and moving to San Francisco. I stared at her, overcome. My eyes filled; I shook. I managed to say, \u201cIt\u2019s been hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

I miss the sweet difficulty of giving up what makes me comfortable for the sake of kids. I miss waking August up from naps and heading to the high school in time to pick girls up for ice cream. I miss how deep I had to dig in my gut to leave my baby for a week so I could take kids to camp. The truth is, I\u2019m so grateful to have been a part of Young Life, whether or not I\u2019ll get to do it again. I\u2019ve never known people more satisfied, more authentic, more fully exhausted than the friends who served alongside me in this ministry.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve shared several times on this blog how I\u2019m obsessed with my own need to prove myself as more than a SAHM. I\u2019m sure you\u2019re sick of it. What I haven\u2019t said is how grateful I am to be home. I\u2019m grateful that I have this moment in my life to see with clarity why I care how you see me.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m grateful to have stood in a ten foot wide concrete courtyard yesterday afternoon with my son and marveled with him that our favorite pigeon is going to be a father. Yep, he\u2019s taken up in a nest next to our back door with a fair pigeoness, and both are sharing the egg warming duties. (Maybe they read last Friday\u2019s post<\/a>.) All afternoon, back and forth to and from the laundry room, quarters in hand, we checked on those pigeons who eyed us suspiciously. My boy was mesmerized: stalk still in the middle of a concrete ground, neck stretched nestward, surrounded by dumpsters, awed by two pigeon faces peering\u00a0 from their nest.<\/p>\n

Maybe these two stories don\u2019t really go together. But in my head this morning, they match. And it\u2019s Thankful Tuesday so I can be thankful for whatever I want\u2026whether or not the stories tie into a neat conclusion.<\/p>\n

So instead of smooth endings, I will send you to this article by Andy Crouch, one of my favorite Christian thinkers, begging you to click here and read<\/a>. If there were ever an article written for Thankful Tuesday, it\u2019s this one.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re up to it, tell us what you\u2019re thankful for and why. Yours don\u2019t have to match either.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"