Our theme this year is Growing!, with the exclamation point.

Why?

Growing is tumultuous. It happens in a messy fashion, in fits and starts. It’s not neat, and it’s not stepwise.

We got to the end of April, and completed the challenge. Endings are bittersweet. Sometimes it means that something didn’t survive that we felt an attachment to. Sometimes it’s relief that something is over. Sometimes endings speed past so quickly, we don’t even notice they’ve gone until later, when we sit up and say, hey way, where did that thing go?

I like to do the challenge because it stretches me and it brings me back to my blogging, which I love.

I forget, sometimes, how much I enjoy it.

I invite you, Dear Reader, to think a moment. What do you enjoy, that you’ve forgotten? What pastimes have you zoomed by, without stopping, and all of a sudden it’s April 30th?

Furthermore, dear ones, I invite you to think about how you might spend some of your time on that thing this week. Just fifteen minutes. Not a lot of time.

But if we don’t take the time, it’ll be taken from us.

And sometimes, time is all we have.

Thank you for reading along with us during the challenge, and I hope you’ll come back for our Reflections.