December Dedications

Friday, December 1
Today is dedicated to Elijah, whose life sings to me about struggle, pain, and the voice of God.

Saturday, December 2
Today is dedicated to talking in the kitchen.

Sunday, December 3 - Wednesday, December 6
These days are dedicated to having a job.

Thursday, December 7
Today is dedicated to the specialty grocery stores in CIL. You came through when I feared I would not drink root beer for another seven months.

Friday, December 8
Today is dedicated to your children. I love seeing them grow up on social media, and I love teaching them.

Saturday, December 9
Today is dedicated to online dating and its stories.

Sunday, December 10
Today is dedicated to "normal" days.

Monday, December 11
Today is dedicated to you, when you feel like the world is too much, the week is too long, the kids are too loud, and you're not enough. God is with us.

Tuesday, December 12
Today is dedicated to eyeliner. It's a beautiful thing to look in the mirror and say to oneself, "Who is that Bad*** B****?! Oh, that's just me wearing eyeliner!"

Wednesday, December 13
Today is dedicated to Scrappy the cat, who likes cuddles, and who jumps down from mosque rooftops to find me when she hears my keys jingle.

Thursday, December 14
Today is dedicated to Ralph Waldo Emerson and his Transcendentalists who offered a measure of truth, and whose individualism haunts us with its many grandchildren.

Friday, December 15
Today is dedicated to sentence diagramming. You heard me. Sentence Diagramming, you helped me not to have to think of a party game for hyperglycemic seventh-graders.

Saturday, December 16
Today is dedicated to twinkle lights.

Sunday, December 17
Today is dedicated to the fellowship and the generosity of your people, dear Lord. You tell us there is enough and more than enough.

Monday, December 18
Today is dedicated to women whose husbands have died.

Tuesday, December 19
Today is dedicated to babysitters everywhere, who made it possible for my friends to see Star Wars with me.

Wednesday, December 20
Today is dedicated to Shanti and her willingness to re-watch all of Game of Thrones, straight through from the beginning.

Thursday, December 21
Today is dedicated to Christa, one of those people who has endless inner resources, as best I can tell.

Friday, December 22
Today is dedicated to watching TV without guilt.

Saturday, December 23
Today is dedicated to the friends who stick around, eat soup, watch movies, and laugh so loudly and prettily that the movie doesn't even matter.

Sunday, December 24
Today is dedicated to disappointments. Finding your king as a baby in a stable. Finding yourself unable to help someone you love. Finding the road ahead to be treacherous. Finding you've used up all the chocolate chips.

Monday, December 25
Today is dedicated to the family that witnesses your birth; the family that witnesses your growth; the family that witnesses your daily deaths. Sometimes it's the same group of people, and sometimes it's a whole big mix.

Tuesday, December 26 - Thursday, December 28
These days are dedicated to streaming shows, coffee, and at-home workouts.

Friday, December 29
Today is dedicated to the people who send their kids places in order to give them a better life, like the taxi driver who was so kind to me, who plans to send his young son to live with his relative in Canada in two short years.

Saturday, December 30
Today is dedicated to my brother and sister-in-law. I miss you terribly.

Sunday, December 31
Today is dedicated to the Friedrichses, who open their lives with abandon.