multitude monday, #325 – 349.

Okay.  I don’t really feel ready to do this today, but I am realizing I need Multitude Monday now more than ever.  So here goes …

inexpensive antibiotics for sinus infections

a pharmacy within walking distance

pharmacists who give you whatever you need without a prescription

a husband who lets me lay down and rest

40-minute morning walks with Maggie, three times a week

new, almost-physical hunger for Sunday morning worship service

reminder of my purpose for living here

feeling desperately “poor in spirit” (Matthew 5.3).  Today’s reminder from Matthew that that’s a good thing

peaceful Sunday afternoon cooking in my kitchen while my kids napped, to the backdrop of The Nutcracker

learning to use my convection oven

learning to use my pressure cooker

I baked my first batch of cookies in South Asia

I made my first South Asian chickpea salad

David always bleaches our produce for me

the way David serves us night and day, in the mundane, thankless tasks of produce-bleaching and trash-emptying and repair-men calling and  kid-bathing

emails and facebook notes from home

knowing people are praying

we see God answer those prayers every day

leisurely dinner around our table with new South Asian friends last night

the compassion and sympathy of South Asians to newcomers

the love God puts in my heart for the people in this country

R.K. Narayan’s fiction

the bright-colored quilt I found for Judah and Amie’s bedroom wall, and  how happy I feel every time I look at it

Christmas greeting from our Watershed Fellowship family that was so beautiful I cried

feeling sad but very loved this Christmas