It was 8:00 PM last night and I kissed my girls and husband and headed out the door for my “Artist’s Date.”
I felt mostly crazy for just taking off time by myself; but I have to admit I also felt excited. I was finally jumping in with both feet. I was going to do this thing all the way. No more excuses, no more putting it off till next week….
I wasn’t brave enough to go somewhere completely new….so I headed to somewhat familiar territory–Books-A-Million. I say somewhat because to be honest, I don’t really spend a whole lot of time in there just browsing. I usually go to pick up a paticular book I’m looking for and then head off to other errands. So it was kind of fun to just wander around the aisles and see what grabbed my attention.
I stopped in the religious section for a while….but decided I wanted to head off to aisles I might not normally go down. I stopped in the Dream Houses section and decided it would be fun to grab a cup of coffee from “Joe’s Muggs” and flip through the magazine and see what Dream house I would choose. I surprised myself by discovering that what I really loved was the rooms that looked almost cluttered because they were filled with pictures on tables, on the walls and every shelf had tons of things sitting on them. I was also drawn to the round door frames and that look was even repeated in the brick on the fireplace.
I finished my coffee and went to put the magazine back and glanced around to see if I was missing anything else and then noticed the biography section. I used to love to read biographies. I had already been in the bookstore for an hour and I hated to stay too much longer, but I just had to browse the shelves for a minute. That is when I saw a book that grabbed my attention. I can’t remember the exact title now, but it was a biography on the lady who wrote “Mary Poppins.” It just intrigued me and I began to flip through the pages. I would love to have bought it, but it is $25….so I think I’ll see if I can check it out in our local library. But when I was just reading through the introduction I found this quote from part of a poem (and it was written by a famous poet, but I can’t remember who just now):
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know its place for the first time.”
I love that! It says exactly how I am feeling…..I feel like I am on an exploration of sorts to discover exactly who God created me to be and when I arrive, I will know who I am for the very first time.
