Today's blog is meant to be sweet but short. For Monday evenings, I do think this is all anyone can handle. If we are honest with ourselves, Mondays can be rather exhausting, but we remain triumphant in knowing we made it through another day with as much zest and passion as we could possible allow ourselves to give. At around 3:13 PM this afternoon, following bus duty, I opened up my phone (smiling but tired) and received a text from my dear friend. My grandparents had given her small calendar filled with Zen quotes for the year. On the occasion that a quote is uplifting and memorable, she always sends it my way. This person spends much more time than anyone I know thinking of others instead of thinking of herself. How thankful I am for that.

But the text I read I could not help but well up. Because sometimes we need a small reminder that our life has purpose. That we have all been given a special journey to lead by Him. And though we may doubt our circumstances, there are always gentle reminders that, what we are doing, is indeed following our calling and His path he has layed out for us. Though our path is sometimes directionally challenged-it is the challenges that remind us we are continuing on with purpose and grace and clarity.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for our life.

If anything I can say that the circumstances that befall us may seem coincidental in the moment. However, within our lifetime, we come to realize that nothing has been coincidental. Uncoincidentally, circumstances fell. And uncoincidentally, I found it written on my heart to read the book Love Does and start my own journey toward whimsy. And uncoincidentally, the message that was sent to me today was a clear reminder that-in life-we determine what and how we want to use the challenges we have been given to pave a new path of Grace. One of clear resonsibility and yet overwhelming whimsy.

May life never stop the path that has been placed upon your heart. For doorways always open in the midst of recognized uncoincidental coincidences.