Here are excerpts from some of my favorite recent blog posts by other folks. Click on the links to read them in their entirety.
These are the days we’ll miss and these are the days that also feel like they won’t ever end. It can be both at the same time, I know that now. We get to hold the wonder and sleepiness, the boring and the magical at the same time, the work and the delight, the mundane repetition and the ferocious love altogether, it’s not one or the other.
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This world privileges Monday-morning efficiency and business-as-usual. But the kingdom of heaven is more like a snow day. It is right now. It is permission to be happy. It is laughter bubbling up from within the shadow of the cross.
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On many occasions the worst has happened. I’ve faced all of these fears, and without a doubt they have left me devastated, sad, and despairing about the future.
Then something unexpected happened: the sun rose on another day, and another after that.
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What weighs me down is the idea that my life SHOULD be some certain way.
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And it’s all still pretty close for me, the whole experience. I remember so many things that happened, there at the hospital. Good stuff, and bad. A couple of defining incidents remain especially vivid in my mind.
Thank you, Shawn. Grateful to be included and looking forward to reading each one of these.