Refresh

Ok it is dictionary day again, but I did not do what I normally do this time.  I chose a word rather than pick it at random.  I had recently read “refreshing” and I do like that word, so I thought I would make it the word of the day.
Besides yesterday I reckon I really felt it.  It was hot.  We had commented earlier it was like a summer’s day.  I had breaky with a mate then he brought his chainsaw over and we cut out a few stumps.  Then I did some work in the yard and Merril and I went and did a few things we had to do.  It was at that point the comment was made about it seeming like a summer’s day.
It was later on we were sitting in the yard in some shade a breeze blew.  To me it felt so refreshing.  Hence the appropriateness and interest I had in the word when I read it later.
The dictionary I normally use had three entries related to refresh.   They were refresh, refresher, refreshment.  It was the word “refresh” I was particularly interested in.  It described refresh as (among other things) reanimate, reinvigorate.  Looking it up elsewhere in Dictionary.com it means “to provide new vigour and energy by rest, food, etc.” while in Mirriam-Webster it means to “renew, restore, renovate, rejuvenate (make like new).  Renew implies a restoration of what had become faded or disintegrated so that it seems like new.”  The Free Dictionary said it was “to revive or reinvigorate…”  I admit I am a bit bemused when I see it stated that “refresh” means “to refresh.”
As I say I actually really like that word as there are definitely times where refreshing does me good.  That is both in a physical and mental sense.  Physically it seems everyone needs that from time to time.  I know I wilt.  Sometimes it is a glass of water that revives or a rest before going back to the task at hand.  Mentally I can get jaded even though I am big on having one day a week not thinking about what I normally need to do.  Sometimes it is that the constant activities get to me. Or the sense that all is doable but so much is one on top of the other that I ask myself, “when will it all end.”  Or it maybe I have consistently failed to do what I do to centre myself (I call it a quiet time where I am alone with God going over stuff)
Whatever the cause, three cheers for refreshing I reckon.  Refreshing to me is like a second wind.  There is stuff for me to do.  Not all at once thankfully.  It is a slow and steady wins the race thing ensuring I have breaks and keep myself from allowing worry.  There is time to do what I need to do and as long as daily foundations are put in place correctly, “I’ve got this.”