Tell it to the trees

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 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah :) how are u?


I had a nice day today. I did some laundry in the morning and then my two friends visited me, we had some coffee and very humble serving of some cookies, dates and grapes. Alhamdulillah. Then hubby came home and we had dinner and now I had time to sit down with you guys :) It was raining earlier but now the sun wants to come out. 




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Have you been fasting? I'm looking forward on Thursdays fast, the day of Arafat. Gotta say I have been kinda caught up with dunya so it's good to focus on reading Qur'an and making dhikr etc. even if it is on one day. I've been thinking about this, how I'm more living the worldly life and leaving the deen on the back of my mind. It usually always goes like this for me, when I'm doing great and things are going fine I kinda am lulled into the peacefulness. I'm not saying I am not grateful, but I just don't worship as good as I could. It's more of the difficult, struggling times when I feel closer to Allah. So that's something I gotta work on and think about. 

Also the peacefulness is something I've been able to fully experience very recently. Or these past 7 months I have been married to my husband. When you're used to highs and lows, that kind of a rollercoaster life and relationships, it feels really different to have stable, maybe more predictable but calm life. Like I have been writing lately.. Generally I feel I have so much more time. I find myself often even a bit bored. I have time for my little hobbies like painting. I might cry but I really feel happy most of the time. Of course every relationship has some problems from time to time, but now I have actually time for hopes and dreams. And for myself too, I don't need to live only the relationship, but I'm able to grow as a person.

It's like I'd have a watering can and a full garden to water. I can decide where, when, and I'm also able to see the whole picture instead of trying to save a plant which was rotten from the roots to start with. 

Instead, be able to grow a tree.




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This week I don't have much to do. I've been a bit lazy lately, so I will step up with my work outs. Also I need to do some groceries. But maybe it's time to explore those hopes and dreams, see if there's something I could adapt to my daily life. In sha Allah.

Have a nice week dears :) next time then,


Aisha


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