Giving thanks - that God never leaves us where we are. He is at work even and especially when we can’t see any movement. Good times will be interrupted by hard times, and hard times will at some point be improved by better times. This is my experience. The older I get the more the lines blur between good and hard times, and it becomes more evident to me that they often occur simultaneously. It seems odd to give thanks for hard things, but more often than not those hard things

There are days when no matter how much you want to write something down, you just can't really find the words. Or maybe it's the energy that you can't conjure up. Either way, there are hard things happening in our household these days. I suspect I will come back and write them down one day. But while in the midst of hard things, it's really just about doing the next right thing. In this case, prayer is mostly the next right thing. So we will continue to pray and do all the ne