the day is set right with a little Rosie Thomas and Ani DeFranco. 
it’s a good day off, spent resting with my wife - watching movie trailers, drinking strong pressed coffee - eating not the best of breakfast foods, but necessary for our lazy sunday.

pajama pants and biscuits. 
cold and rainy outside, but it’s okay today. It’s okay to be inside and not feel guilty for wasting a day…of course I would never call it a day wasted, but a day rested, indeed.

I like to catch up on writing things - or at least reading things, which bring me to write things. I’m not sure why it happens that way, but it does and I can’t complain.
In finishing “Reconciling All Things”, by Chris Rice and Emmanuel Katongole, I imagine a life of drinking from the same cup.

It’s a great reminder of real reconciliation - of not just drinking from the cup of our own redistribution and injustice, but drinking of the same cup with those you build community with…

When two enemies drink from the same cup, real reconciliation begins. Drinking from the cup is intimate and is necessary - it’s close. It’s something I’m learning to do in the midst of cultural indifference.
Love requires much more — especially when living in the city tends to harden your skin.
Real life takes place in the mundane, everyday interactions, I’m reminded. 

It involves me, living in a community for thirty years and then understanding what needs have yet to be met.
But, I don’t want that - I want to change something quick.
I want to shake a hand and smile and give someone a ride and believe that racial inequality just met its match - but it’s deeper than that.
It’s giving people a ride for decades at a time — putting up with their dog pooping in your yard, even when they know it’s their job to pick it up.

It’s finding grace and patience - not something I can really fix in a few months, or even a few years. 

I’m learning that, well, I have a lot to learn.

But today, we’ll rest and debate going out - only to realize that our sabbath lies within the hearts of each other and our communion with God 

and also, in pajama pants and biscuits.