Taking Time to Celebrate
Yesterday morning I finished writing a short devotional book that I had been working on for the past two weeks. Randy came home early and said he was taking me to lunch to celebrate. Followed by a hike. Followed by an evening of music with good friends at one of our local wineries.
It wasn't a huge project, and yet it was an accomplishment nonetheless. I have other, weekly projects that I could have immediately moved on to, but because we are living INTENTIONALLY this year there were other things on our "list" that we wanted to do this week. Hike. Spend quality time with one another, with friends. And celebrate.
Celebrating wasn't something I came in to the new year wanting to be INTENTIONAL about. But it feels like a worthy addition. And something we don't do often enough as adults.
Consider your Facebook feed. If it is anything like mine it is filled with kids and their first everythings: first outfit, first laugh, first picture with grandma, first solid food, first crawls, first steps, first poop in the potty, first lost tooth (and second and third and fifth), first day of school. We celebrate everything when it comes to our kids.
But as we grow older the things we celebrate become fewer and farther between. They have to take on a different level of importance in order to be deemed "worthy" of celebration. If it's not a graduation, a retirement, or a wedding, we seem to gloss over it.
Think about it for a moment. When was the last time you celebrated you? Something you did. A problem you solved. A first (or a second or third or fifth) thing you accomplished. Something "new" that has come in to your life -- a new job, a new relationship, a new home, a new hairstyle.
Trust me. Even if it has been a long time since you've celebrated you, it's not because you haven't done anything worthy of celebration. Because you have. We all do. More often than we think.
While we were out for our walk I asked Randy how we could celebrate him. It made sense to celebrate the completion of my writing project, but how do we celebrate the things he does? Do we celebrate every catering job (our life would be one big party!)? Just the big jobs? And what about our lives beyond work? What do we do outside of our jobs that we need to start celebrating?
These are questions we will continue to carry with us as we consider what it looks like to be more INTENTIONAL about celebrating this year.
It wasn't a huge project, and yet it was an accomplishment nonetheless. I have other, weekly projects that I could have immediately moved on to, but because we are living INTENTIONALLY this year there were other things on our "list" that we wanted to do this week. Hike. Spend quality time with one another, with friends. And celebrate.
Celebrating wasn't something I came in to the new year wanting to be INTENTIONAL about. But it feels like a worthy addition. And something we don't do often enough as adults.
Consider your Facebook feed. If it is anything like mine it is filled with kids and their first everythings: first outfit, first laugh, first picture with grandma, first solid food, first crawls, first steps, first poop in the potty, first lost tooth (and second and third and fifth), first day of school. We celebrate everything when it comes to our kids.
But as we grow older the things we celebrate become fewer and farther between. They have to take on a different level of importance in order to be deemed "worthy" of celebration. If it's not a graduation, a retirement, or a wedding, we seem to gloss over it.
Think about it for a moment. When was the last time you celebrated you? Something you did. A problem you solved. A first (or a second or third or fifth) thing you accomplished. Something "new" that has come in to your life -- a new job, a new relationship, a new home, a new hairstyle.
Trust me. Even if it has been a long time since you've celebrated you, it's not because you haven't done anything worthy of celebration. Because you have. We all do. More often than we think.
While we were out for our walk I asked Randy how we could celebrate him. It made sense to celebrate the completion of my writing project, but how do we celebrate the things he does? Do we celebrate every catering job (our life would be one big party!)? Just the big jobs? And what about our lives beyond work? What do we do outside of our jobs that we need to start celebrating?
These are questions we will continue to carry with us as we consider what it looks like to be more INTENTIONAL about celebrating this year.
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