A new baby,
Health issues,
Christmas,
Cold wintery days,
Cold & Flu season ...
Life slows. The rush ebbs away to be replaced by the stillness.
Hot drinks, hearty stews, pajama days, books on the sofa, baby snuggles.
Life suspends.
Projects forgotten. Housework neglected. School books unopened. Play dates rescheduled. To - do list on fridge door, neglected.
But its still LIFE ... it's still the story ...
Then engines begin to warm and the wheels begin to roll, for the movement and flow must go on.
Yet, you reflect on the long lost stillness of those winter, sickness ridden, christmas, newborn baby, never leave the sofa or the pajama days in wonder ... at the beautiful of the still, the quiet and though you wanted so much then, to go, go, GO! Now, you want to slow, slow ... become still again ... and breath in again what you wished away.
Momentum builds ... it's spring ... summer ... then winter again ... the once still baby, is still your little baby ... but she isn't so still now, fluttering by on tiny feet...
So I breath in NOW. I sit still on this sofa. Bound by her insatiable desire to nurse in my arms and hope it will last for ever.
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