mentally----feeling like the following blog post is exactly what has been on my mind: This was written by Elizabeth in response to a question about spending "alone time" online. You can read the post in its entirety here.
"Most of our genuine friendships, most of the contacts that will fill us rather than deplete us, are the ones we nurture face to face and the ones where we are nurtured in return. They'll be the friends who watch your first baby when you go to the hospital to give birth to the second. They'll be the friends who sit in stunned silence at playgroup while the doctor on the phone tells you that you must arrange for a CT scan immediately. And they'll be there when your hair is falling out and you need a second opinion on a wig. They'll help you move and set up housekeeping in your new house. They'll be the extra set of hands you need the first time you attempt to nurse both your baby and your toddler following an unexpected C-section.They'll understand how fragile you are in the months after your first child leaves for college and they will be kind, very very kind, when the whole world seems like a hostile place.
I can't tell my young correspondent how much time to spend online. I can't even seem to set those hard, fast parameters for myself, but I can offer this: make sure the time you spend is really nurturing you. Make sure it's making you a better wife, a better mother, a better Christian. Your time is so precious and your time alone is so scarce. Make it count. Make it matter.
So I haven't been online much this summer, but we've been having a wonderful time.
Hope you are enjoying yours!
Pictures of all our adventures soon....really....I mean that.
2 comments:
a nice reminder, thanks.
missing our face to face time!! let's catch up soon.
xo
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