New digs

and nearly imperceptible nubbins

This past weekend was action-packed. The whirlwind of Friday & Saturday included: move! clean! unpack! chill with smol nephew!

Things I enjoyed during the process:

• scrubbing every nook and cranny

• flattening emptied boxes

• a fuss-free handover

• figuring out new systems—for form and function

• taking a few round trips of the 16-bus-stops between old home & new home that gave me time to ponder how in the world the Lord’s kindness and provision yet again has blown me away, above and beyond anything I could have ever imagined

• making an IKEA list hehe

spotless 🧽🫧 (a friend commented that i could make it big in the serial-killer-clean-up-business. good to have options…)

all my worldly possessions, swaddled in plastic

settling in. i will never get over God’s faithfulness 🥹💕 (on friday, my first evening in this new home, i plunked to the old hymn: Great Is Thy Faithfulness 🎹)

nubbins

Remember the tree I chopped up two weeks ago? Within days I began to notice nearly imperceptible nubbins growing from most of the bare branches. They are now large enough for the camera to capture it:

A visceral reminder that God is always at work, especially when we can’t see it 🌱

an album

The perfect jazzy piano vibe for unpacking. Beegie Adair is a legend. Enjoy her 75-song The Great American Song Collection from 2002. (thanks for the rec, cheryl 🎶)

a song

Kicked off this past Sunday morning with Sunday Morning by Maverick City, and continued with the rest of this playlist.

I know everything I have in life is 'cause of You
Where else would I run if I don't run to You?

It's Your love that keeps me going
When there's breath in my lungs and a beating heart
All I can be is grateful

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Thank you for reading, friends! Much newness this season—even smol bandmate got a new snare:

top-of-the-line drumkit 🥁

love,
reb