Your Story Matters

Em & Mark...I love them.

On Tuesday mornings I get to walk my youngest to school. It’s a pretty special time. I look forward to it.

On cooler days, we hold hands underneath my sweatshirt sleeve or share my coat pocket. I like walking with her on cold days best.

Today I learned that she would like to go to Alaska. Stay for a week and learn how to dogsled. How cool is that? Awesome.

Moments like these bring a sweet connection. They’re so simple but go down so deep.

How about you? How do you connect?

What to do about…

Stress. Selfishness. Discontent. Less than. More than. Not enough. Materialism. Boredom. Me.

Perhaps a healthy dose of…

Gratitude.

I truly see you.

I am listening.

I am blessed.

I appreciate you.

God is good.

I have enough.

I will trust Him.

Thank You.

"The Dip" by Seth Godin

Feeling the fog brain today and general discouragement. I’m in the middle of big project for work and I think I’ve hit “the dip“. The “dip” is that place where I (we) decide to quit or push through. All stories that matter hit it at some point. I know I’m going to push through but for now…this evening…I will procrastinate and wallow. It’s funny because I’m really excited about the project. It will be a life changer for so many people…for teenagers. I wonder if the size of the dip is directly related to the potential impact of the project?

Ever feel that way?

(by the way, “The Dip” is an excellent, encouraging, quick read. I highly recommend it!)

Starry Night Over the Rhone

“The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.”
— Jim Harrison

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.”
- Gilda Radner

“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”
- C.S. Lewis