Sometimes, however, we need to run away for a bit. Hopefully, we can all appreciate our surroundings and the people interjected in those surroundings. When I was in the church youth program, the youth minister talked about the concept of “retreat.” The person retreats, like in battle, from the world we live in day-to-day in order to build up strength, supplies and rest, then go back to the action better equipped. In 1986, Ferris Bueller took a day off from school. Then there are the times when certain things become so predictable that our minds habituate to their presence and we need to shake it up a little bit. There are the times when we need a better routine, a more predictable rhythm for life. Order matters, routine matters, but often, togetherness matters more. Completing tasks that would call to me out the corner of my eye in the hour before they come, I am ready for them when they arrive. All this happens while the children are still with their grandparents. When four days passed, I walked into the door, lugging bags down the hallway, and began to set the house right, back in order. In this case, I was called away for a few days from house and home. Absence, sickness, you name it-things happen, life happens, and order goes out the door. Just when I sigh that sweet sigh of satisfaction common to the Type A-order loving personality, a wrench gets thrown in. It helps me stay cool in an admittedly overwhelming task of directing four noisy kids before dinnertime. When my children know what to expect because I am reading off a list for each child under the heading “evening chores” then as they bustle about, I might be able to stop and smile at their antics. It is less work to direct the moving parts and bodies. Routine helps the house know what comes next. Just like muscle memory, the more we do a certain movement, the more our brain can be freed up from the thinking of how to do this movement, to deeper thoughts or broader thoughts. Perhaps you read about the joy I take in routine and order last week. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”ĭo you have a routine for every day? I do. Previously published in the Hughson Chronicle-Denair Dispatch.įerris Bueller said, “Life moves pretty fast.
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