It's been another one of those days...

Not a bad one...it's just another of those increasingly frequent days when I blow off the painting and do *gasp* other things instead. I know, it's sort of crazy, isn't it? But in my Bible Study I was directed to Psalm 127:2 - "In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat - for He grants sleep to those He loves." Not only is proper rest a GIFT from GOD - but it's highly recommended we receive that gift! I think I'm always sort of assuming that the Proverbs 31 woman, with that lamp that didn't go out at night and the getting up while it's still dark thing, must have sucked it up and just pushed through every day, and so maybe I was being noble or godly or something by sacrificing sleep every day and then behaving like a sleepless raving lunatic during everyone else's waking hours. Forget that the Miss Proverbs probably settled down for a lengthy siesta every afternoon, and she was organized enough to do a lot of delegating and smart enough to know when to say No.

At any rate, all the months of self-inflicted stress and fatigue caught up with me, and I'm taking God up on His offer to give the weary and burdened some rest. I'm not NOT painting, I'm just not doing it all day. And some days (more than Sunday) I might not even do it at all. It's exhilirating when I go through the day and get to mark off all sorts of things on my to-do list that have nothing to do with Art. Pay bills. Unload the dishwasher (though that's never exhilirating because I absolutely detest that job). Finish my Bible Study. Tickle-fight with my kids. Fill out health forms for my kid's camp and sign him up for baseball. I find it amazing that I can do everything that needed to be done around the house and I'm still sitting here blogging, with plenty of time left to make dinner.

Tomorrow I'll put away all the dreaded laundry (another job I detest) and maybe do a little art, but not that much...