I just had a wonderful, encouraging and inspiring breakfast with PeacefulLady, and I am so blessed to have her as a new friend in my life. I feel like to Lord is placing people in my path who are just exactly the kinds of people I need right now. Thank you, God, for your provision in my life!PeacefulLady and I spent three hours discussing parenting, performance anxieties, discipline, nurturing and affirmation, expectations, struggles, and so much more. It was SO GOOD to connect with someone on these levels, to talk to someone who wasn't there to prove herself better (or worse!), or to challenge, or to have a one-upmanship match, or to make me feel inadequate, or to puff me up with insincerities, or to fill the time with platitudes, but someone who was there to SHARE and ENCOURAGE and BE REAL. Wow. What a refreshing experience! Thank you, PeacefulLady, for choosing to be REAL!
And when we were leaving, she thanked me for our gathering by paying for my breakfast! What a blessing on this day when I'm trying to prepare a modest birthday celebration for The Baby on a shoestring budget. :-)
It was such a truly nourishing time. I hope to do it again soon.
The parting was just as lovely--she gave me a Really Good Hug, and her compassion and honesty just oozed out of that hug and saturated me.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
