Painful awakening

You know you've become a working professional when...
...words like productivity and show rates become a part of your daily speech.
...coffee actually tastes good.
...TGIF is no longer referring to a tv series night, but how you feel one day a week.
...you recognize cars on your way to work and start naming them, acting like they are your travel buddies. "Do you have your travel buddy?!?"
...people pull you aside at events to ask you questions about body parts.
...conferences, work related, excited you beyond belief.
...your desk becomes not only a place of organized chaos, but a welcome respite and something you are very possessive over.
...you grunt and your co-workers know exactly what you were thinking.
Thee list goes on, but that's all that jumps to mind at the time.

Other random thoughts.
Why is there traffic at 10:55 pm? Who and why is out on the roads at this hour, you should be asleep or home people! Really?!?

Some people can survive and actually appear lucid and pleasant off of 6 hrs of sleep a night...why am I not one of those people? Is this something you adapt to our of forced sleepless nights like when you have kids, cause right now me functioning off of less than 7 hrs for more than a weeks is scary.

Sleep deprivation is kinda like intoxication...increased dancing, decreased filter, and lots of laughing.

Women's night: Great, helpful, rejuvenating; yet, draining. Emotion costs energy. Always, great sleep comes after a hard cry. So much excitement, so much to look forward to...
...so much to confess and ask for forgiveness from God, from others. So many beautiful women in our church family. Thank you for allowing us to share the wisdom, to share the experiences and struggles. Thank you for vulnerability, for that one or two people who you can let see it all and it is safe. Thank you Lord for always being safe. Thank you for safe places and women when so much of the day is not safe.

I pray for these women. I ask Lord your hand of mercy, grace, peace, comfort, strength. Good thing you have big hands. You formed the moon. You "measured the waters in the hollow of your hand" Isaiah 40:12. You "tend the flock like a shepherd; You gather the lambs in your arms." vs11. Gather Veronica to you as work is crazy and change is coming though we don't know when. Hold L as she beats her fists on your chest and cries out in pain, despair, sadness, joy, questioning, searching, shame, longing, desire. Catch me and be my soft bed to land in as I run until I can physically run no more. I am tired, weary...
Isaiah 40: 27
Why do you say, O Kelly and complain O Trudy, "My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God"? Do you know know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
...weary has a new meaning, a different meaning for me tonight. I am weary of waiting, a longing heart is a hard thing to sustain. May my longing be of you O Lord, may my desires find respite in you. May I awake in the morning after a good hard sleep only to find David was right, "When I awake, you are with me"