The Vikings got there first
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Hi friend, This is where you'll usually find me lately. First cup of coffee, still warm in my hands. Maybe ten minutes after my feet hit the floor. Jaycee curled up beside me on the recliner, not quite ready to start her day either. And lately, before anything else, I open a little app called Yuno and let it teach me something. This week it taught me that the Vikings reached America. In longboats. About five hundred years before Columbus. Long before the story I was handed in school. I sat there with my coffee going huh. That's not how I learned it. And then I noticed something funny. I never cared about history when I was young. Not one bit. It was something to get through, something with a test at the end, something somebody else decided I needed to know. But here I am now, gray hairs and all, actually wanting to know. Reaching for it on my own. No test. No grade. Nobody assigning it. Just me, wanting to understand the world a little better than I did yesterday. I think that's one of the quiet gifts of this season. Curiosity comes back. Or maybe it finally gets to be ours. So much of what we learned when we were young, we learned for someone else. To pass. To please. To get to the next thing. But the wanting that shows up now, in the first quiet minutes of the morning, that one belongs to nobody but you. After Yuno, I open my Bible app and read the verse of the day. A little history, then a little grace. It's become the gentlest way I know to start a morning. Whatever you've been curious about lately, the thing you keep meaning to look into, I hope you let yourself reach for it. Not because you have to. Just because you want to. That's reason enough now. Jaycee, for the record, remains uninterested in the Vikings. She has reviewed the longboats and elected to go back to sleep. Steady as ever. Until next Sunday, Jane (and Jaycee) P.S. Right now the first month of The Sunday Push is free. Every week I send one thought, one question, and one small prompt to move you forward. A little push, every Sunday. After the first month it's just $6 a month, and you can stop anytime. You can start here: Start your free month |
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