True fact – I have a tough time giving thanks during Thanksgiving and Christmas season.
I get a sense I’m not alone in this – particularly in this unprecedented year of 2020, with all the loss and isolation and divisions that have marked the year .
I know if you and I look at our circumstances, most particularly, the new holiday restrictions, lock-downs, stay-at-home orders, pandemic fears, family worries and losses, our natural responses probably tend to be far from thankful. [Read more…]
Where in your life are you trying to hold it together?
You know the struggles you’re facing – the places you are having a hard time bearing up, keeping life going.
In my household when things are happening – things that cause my gut to churn, my teeth to clench, my mind to whirl and if I’m with my hubby talking through the stress – the whatever, that is threatening our peaceful life balance – I’ll often look down. Down at my hubby’s hands, and often his hands are tightly clenched – into white knuckled fists – ready to fight. [Read more…]
If there is anything the COVID-19 has given me, it’s been time. Its been altered – set down into a new place – life is not the same.
Having more time carries a huge weight of responsibility with it. I’ve been experiencing a load of guilt as I observe my neighbor take down a good acre of 60 foot alder trees and re-landscape his entire yard into a green grassy acre with mounded garden beds of lush flowerbeds, and even a waterfall feature, while the weeds in our garden are growing to unprecedented heights. I have more time, but what am I doing with it? [Read more…]
EVERY STEP MATTERS.
‘Every step matters’ is my mantra, or word(s), for 2020. I read those words in a Susie Larson book and it resonated head to toe –‘Yes!’. Those 3 words have revisited me – daily. They’re slowly embedding themselves into my thinking and I’m choosing to live like it. [Read more…]
“Remember your journey…that you may know the righteous acts of the Lord.”
Micah 6:5
This is the path we’re following today – remembering – looking back at God’s work in us on our life’s journey –remembering we’re not alone. Even in our apparent wanderings, our aimless steps, our missteps and dead ends – God is forming us. There is a purpose, there is a plan, and there is the mighty hand of God using all that happens on our journey for good. [Read more…]
