Remember Distraction? That should be the name of my web browsers. Right now I have five browser windows open–four Chrome and one Edge. Within all these browser windows I have 46 different web pages open. It’s kinda like the web browser version of hoarding. I might “need” what’s on each of these pages for some reason, so I don’t close…
Month: March 2020
Distraction
In 42 minutes–at 10 am–my church is doing its second Facebook live session of worship since “social distancing” began. Now it’s 31 minutes. I sat down here before 8 am to rework a lesson on John 9:1-41 for preschool-5th grade kids and it was going well for a while. Then our choir director texted that she was sorry she could…
On a lighter note!
The only person I have shared this blog with is Natalie. I was just looking through my list of posts and wondered if someone started reading if they would think I’m such a whiner! So here’s some wonderful stuff that’s happened lately: Because life has slowed, my anxiety is better. Being in the hospital with Catherine was an “in the…
Ministry
Until I woke up this morning knowing I “need to” plan for some sort of distance ministry to my church families, I was feeling pretty relaxed. My “to dos” were things like sort a huge pile of papers that I’ve been avoiding, make sure we had the ingredients for pancakes and make sure dinner was made. Now my “to dos”…
COVID-19
I know it says something about me that I felt immense peace and maybe even giddiness as our little world shut down because of COVID-19. Now that I have a kid crying in the shoe closet, denied a birthday party, I feel more conflicted. I keep reading articles that are vague in how strictly we should be quarantining–probably because no…