A new day.

Meditating on these words so often has given me the beautiful habit of looking at what others (including me) are not seeing. Our flesh tends to focus on the natural. We see others anxious, we become anxious. We see others buying half a year of toilet tissue, off we trot to the store (smile now, it’s true). But what is GOD doing? What good things are being seeded into? I see families finally sitting down together at a table over a shared meal. I see moms and kids working together on a school art project. I see garden beds being planted on time this year. I see someone finally picking up that book they have wanted to read for a year. I see people working in their garages, working on projects, or finally painting that guest room.

I see smiles, I hear laughter, I smell cookies baking…. I see people taking TIME.

God is all about you. He is all in when He sees His children doing what they enjoy. Yes, these days have hardship and most of us have been touched in some profound way. As a nation and as people, we have been through a lot. But the truth is, we WILL get through this. Some day, this will be a story we all tell. But my wish is to see people come out of this for the better. My hope is that once we get a renewed sense of living and of loving one another, we won’t want to return the busy, distracted world full of disconnects and unfulfilled hearts.