Social Awkwardity

So listen. I’ve been MIA for a very long time. Because life.

But today I must break my non-vow of unintentional blog-silence because I still have 6 hours and 20 minutes of Untamed by Glennon Doyle audiobook to go and my insides are ablaze.

Y’all know how I feel about this woman. Possibly.

I’ve had the new book preordered on Audible since it was allowed. I started it yesterday morning on my commute into the office. Three hours later, I was at Barnes & Noble picking up a physical copy because I needed to touch these words and I had lots of thoughts I wanted to write down in the margins.

If you follow my twitter (which you may not, because it’s not that great), you know this. Side note: Glennon literally just liked my tweets. *shrugs*

I wanted to share this passage that’s resonated so well thus far:

The most revolutionary thing a woman can do: the next precise thing, one thing at a time, without asking permission or offering explanation. This way of life is thrilling.

I understand now that no one else in the world knows what I should do. The experts don’t know, the ministers, the therapists, the magazines, the authors, my parents, my friends, they don’t know. Not even folks who love me the most. Because no one has ever lived or will live this life I am attempting to live, with my gifts and challenges and past and people. Every life is an unprecedented experiment. This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been. There is no map. We are all pioneers.

It’s powerful in her context as well as out of it for me. In addition to all the other ways it’s powerful, what a lesson of how to practice a life that extends grace and mercy to others. Lord, help.

That’s all. Short and sweet to kick my thoughts and musings off again.

-A