It took me a while to name this. {A.K.A. years…}😆
I LIKE TO ANTICIPATE.
I know these days and weeks have been different. As a homebody, I’ve loved the permission to live at a slower pace. The relief from the pressure to do more, go more, please other’s invitations.
Yet, I still have missed things and mourned cancelled events I was so anticipating. I’d purchased tickets for two venues a few months ahead and been delighted every time I spied the dates on my calendar.
Right now we find ourselves still in different days. Some people are out and about more. Some still in. Locations across the country and circumstances all differ and play into it. I have friends fighting cancer and compromised immune systems. I have older relatives with health concerns. And I have friends living in heavily populated areas.
All that aside, I’ve learned we can choose to anticipate. Here’s a bit of how it looked in my life the last weeks: Instead of anticipating the coffee date I was going to have with a friend, I enjoyed Voxer messages.
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I didn’t get the fun weekend away with my husband, but I still happily wake up beside him every morning.
The play my daughter and I were going to attend was postponed, but we’re able to stream movies.
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Sometimes life’s lessons press into learning to love the life right in front of us.
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I’m ever grappling to delight in the day and every bit of what I’ve been given.
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Anticipation can look like planning a make-your-own-pizzas night and ramping up excitement about it.
For some, their dayjobs are their passion and they anticipate going to work every morning.
It’s scheduling a half hour book-and-beverage in your afternoon.
Choose a webinar or livestream, pencil it on your planner. Anticipate it all week!
Perhaps it’s a drive through your neighborhood and park, enjoying the beauty of spring green and blossoms.
Find it in blocking out an afternoon to bake pie.
Plan a morning visit to your local greenhouse for annuals.
Buy ice cream and cookies and have an ice cream cookie assembly line.
Anticipation actually involves a bit of deliberate planning and results in big dividends.
Are you an anticipator? How have you made a shift change in choosing to anticipate right in the every day these last few weeks? What are you looking forward to this week?
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