At this time last year
One of my favorite things about blogs is that if you’re ever curious about what your life looked like a year ago, it’s easy to go back in time and relive it… albeit through posts.
Last year at this time…
My car broke down on my daughter’s first day of school.
This pastor made some phone calls for me and helped me save what little sanity I had left.
We were all deciding who we wanted for the next president of the US.
I was resolving to give-up on ever expanding my horizons professionally.
I didn’t know it at the time, but a few weeks later I was about to make a humongous decision that would affect my life in incredible ways.
My daughter didn’t know it, but she was about to have her most unfavorite school year to date.
I was thousands and thousands of dollars in debt.
I felt lost and hurt with relationships I couldn’t control or didn’t understand why they had to be so difficult.
I abused caffeine and had terrible insomnia.
I also had the flu.
I listened to Joss Stone too much.
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A lot can change in a year. A lot can change for the better in a year.
One thing that didn’t change was Jesus’s love for me and my family. He’s still answering prayers left and right. He’s still here for me.
So I should only have good thoughts about turning 35 tomorrow… right? It’s going to be another year of good things, good changes…
Thank you Jesus!
Journeys
I was sitting here tonight helping my daughter with her spelling homework thinking about the journey she’s on right now in her season of life. Learning to work with different personalities, learning to respect authority, learning the skills necessary to help her succeed in life.
I had this strange sense about how we are definitely on different journeys (because of our ages) but our paths (at least I hope) are running parallel to each other.
And life is happening all around us.
She’s trying to navigate math, I’m trying to make sure there’s balance in our lives.
I don’t know what I mean by any of this, it’s just that earlier I was feeling like Peter when he got out of the boat to walk to Jesus and when the wind came he started to sink and Jesus reached out his hand to pull him up. (Read Matthew 14:25-31.)
And tonight I just felt that instead of me sinking every time the wind blows, I just need to respect that life is a journey, it’s different for everyone and all we really need to do, is be there for one another. Carry each other’s burdens and carry around forgiveness like it’s our job to hand it out freely to people.
