need some clarity?

i do! and running mommy has a lovely analogy that i definitely can use in my life. she laid it down so brilliantly, the same thoughts i have had for a few months now- only she made sense of them all.

her post titled: some clarity. (and i'm totally going to paste it in here, because i want to remember it in it's entirety.)

women are like stoves.

so there i am. it's beautiful, the brids were chirping, the ocean was lapping quietly against the sand, and people were even smiling at me. all ingredients for a good run.
except it was crap. i was having a crap time. and i happened to have a crap time yesterday too.
i'm running- trying not to collapse and i'm seeing a possible correlation between starting my routine (which is going great, by the way) and my crap runs. then i started thinking about how the past few days the hubs and i have been floating on two different wavelengths. i've been loving my new book, and after the kids are in bed, sipping tea and reading has been more of a priority than, say, cuddling my husband.
then, as i stopped to gulp some water, hoping it would help- i thought of stoves.
stoves have lots of burners.
women, are kind of like stoves...blog post coming...i can feel it.
i would say my stove has about 7 burners.
domestic life
motherhood
marriage
well-being
professional
spiritual
personal

All the burners are turned on, but some are hotter than others.
here's where i got some clarity.

as long as your burners aren't turned off, don't get down on yourself when something on your stove isn't on high. until recently, i was struggling to clean my bathrooms and feed my children anything more than pretzels, but my runs were great. now it seems as though it's switched.
why can't I have both? why can't i have it all?
sweat rolled down my cheek and the thought came.
fall our pots are on high, somethings is bound to burn.
it's all about balance, and acceptance that we can't always be perfect. it's hard to surrender to the fact that pots have to be shifted around sometimes.
That's why women are magic. we are able to have all our burners going, and it may be crazy in the kitchen while it's all happening, but if we can be a little less hard on ourselves along the way, we can sit down to dinner for a splendid meal of life.

brilliant and so well said.
i'm going to simmer on this for a bit, no doubt! a very heavy analogy wouldn't you say? love it.