Saving resources isn’t just a financial matter

Saving resources isn’t just a financial matter. It is a spiritual matter. There is a healthy discipline that comes when you seek to do more with less. And the spiritual aspect is more than that as well. I think that gratitude is a fundamental part of saving resources. If you are grateful for something then you value it more highly than if you are not grateful for it. And when you value something highly you don’t waste it. There is something interesting about all of this. It seems like when you treat something like it has value, when you treat something with respect or gratitude, you are also treating yourself with respect and gratitude. It’s a little like a child who treats a doll with love. The child’s soul is fed in the process.

New vocabulary, surprises, new skills, and the mundane.

• Lily said, “Dad” and “Daddy!” and “Hi, Dad!”.
• Elsie ate a large breakfast and, much to our chagrin, simultaneously took out two nursery workers at once when she lost it again.
• Timmy said “I know what ‘butt-in-door’ means.”  I said, “What?”  “I know what ‘butt-in-door’ means.  It means Choose the right:  ‘ Celestial glory shall be mine
  If I can but endure.’ “  “Oh.”
• Abby was caught speaking in an alien language while she and Kate and Timmy were sliding an assembly of books with an array of “My Little Ponies” that they called a space ship.  Aliens speak quickly with a very high voice.
• Kate learned how to do both the bird flap and the walk-around with a little toy clacker.
• Gina took all 5 kids to the dentist simultaneously and didn’t even think it was a big deal.
• I stayed up past 10:00 too many times and found myself on autopilot through an early morning meeting this morning.