One mile: Today wasn't even a Monday, and I was dragging. When you come back from a break of laying low and completing a lot of sleeping cycles, it sure is hard to get back in the swing of things. As I was making about four-hundred salt dough hearts with the student council after school, and I reflected back on this as I was running only one mile today, I chuckled a bit because with the amount of hearts we layed out on that table, I felt like my own heart was just half full today. 

Not half full in the sense that I didn't feel love but half full in the sense that I wasn't able to fully realize my own heart today because of how tired and drained I was by the end of the day. But then I thought about that 1 hour and 15 minutes of creating hearts and watching four different stations rotate of students who were eager to make something for the student body and I realized while my heart may have seem depleated, we were still creating bigger hearts than when we first started. Dough was flung everywhere and the tables may have taken a good two hours afterwards to clean up, but the excitement of using a rolling pin or cutting out hearts which looked like cookies or shuttling water from the sink to the table really made it all worth it. When you feel depleated, always look around you. You aren't expected to fill up your heart by yourself but you certainly can rely on others to replenish what it is you are lacking that day. Look for a multiplication of hearts when your heart seems to have run a bit dry for the day and you will find renewed joy in it all. And realize that sometimes a good nights sleep, a sprinkle of laughter and a few minutes of letting "work go" can help you heart when passion runs low.