Have you ever had one of those days? You know, the ones on which everything just seems to be unexpected & unplanned? And not in a good way either. To be honest with you, I feel like 2020 has been one of those years! I bet there’s a good chance you can relate. I was recently reminded of lessons I learned on one of those days years ago. There was a morning years ago that was exactly one of THOSE days. I got up on time, got the kiddos up on time but they were dragging. Not one of the four of them was ready when they needed to be.…
Now What?
I recently asked my social media friends what they thought their greatest need was going to be during the next three months. The varied responses I received ranged from things as practical as food to needs as personal as having a good mind set. All of the responses did however fit in to three categories: physical, social and emotional. These normal everyday needs are to be expected. They are the same for all of us at one point of life or another. What is different though, is we are living in a season where more people have greater needs all at the same time due covid-19. This current crisis has…
3 Things That Will Never Change
I don’t need to tell you that we are living in a season in which we are facing changes everyday. The covid-19 virus has changed the way we work, the way we shop, the way we worship, the places we go, the way we connect to one another, the way school is conducted, and I dare say even the way we view the world. Spending too much time thinking about it is utterly overwhelming. Trying to keep up with the multitude of news reports and public opinions is like keeping up with the laundry in a house of teenagers that change their clothes four times a day, which is a…
Are We There Yet?
If you’ve ever been on a trip with a child of almost any age, you are probably familiar with the questions: “Are we there yet?”, “Will we be there soon?”, and “How much longer until we get there?” Maybe you remember asking those questions yourself when you were a young. For some reason, even from an early age, we tend to develop an expectation that everything will be better when we arrive at our destination. I carried this expectation into my everyday life thinking that my identity would be found in the next phase of life I arrived at. My first big expectation was that I would arrive at the…
