I’ve always changed my blog design. That’s not new. But I’ve never been one for grey. I’ve previously thought it to be mediocre, dull and lifeless with zero personality. Oh! What a turn around! I’ve come to love and appreciate all things grey. From light grey to darker shades of grey, the complements and contrasts speak of my life. Grey is not just grey!
I used to be fairly black and white. Not that I thought so at the time. But I was. And that is probably not a bad thing when you’re trying to teach and guide your children. But every day, every week I realise how broken, how messy, how imperfectly grey our lives are. No one has it all together – they just might look like it. Or maybe they really do feel like they’ve got their ducks in a row… but life has a way of teaching us painful lessons. Lessons such as the world simply isn’t only various shades of black or white but many shades of grey. And whilst they may seem painful things to learn at the time, they are indeed profitable and I’m thankful for them.
Susan, once again your words have struck a chord in me at just the right time 🙂
I have recently been wondering if I have a touch of SAD. Seasonal Affective Disorder, except for me, it can strike at any time of year, all I need is for the sky to be grey. Yesterday and today are grey, dull, dismal and drizzly. I am sitting at my computer with a dull headache feeling down. I have no particular reason to be down, I just am. I don’t want to go and have a shower, get moving, do anything, yet if the sun was shining I could move. Do I like grey? No,to be honest I don’t. I love bright cheerful colours, I hate the current fashion for houses to be grey or beige, I think they look depressing. I have bad eyesight which means I need more light to see clearly than most people do, so that makes a difference as well, especially inside on a dull day, when the lights don’t really help. So maybe what I need to do is learn to appreciate the grey days. After all, they bring a rest to the world from the burning sun, we need them., just as we need the rain. I just went to the door and looked out. They sky is not “just grey” it is made up of streaks of many shades from white to darkest swirls of grey, It is actually quite interesting. My new challenge, learn to appreciate the grey. As Susan says life is not black and white, but made up of many shades of grey, time to stop hating them and embrace it 🙂
Good point Susan… Grey… I look at grey as in “I’m on the brink of something new .. ” or perhaps it’s a stage where God tells us just to “wait” on something happening in between black and white? xxx