I have a church member who is on hospice and I can’t sit with her.
My daughter is not going to experience her high school’s traditional versus assembly where the classes compete against each other.
I don’t get to chat with my fellow school board members over dinner before our meetings.
Every day it seems there is some new loss. A missed opportunity, a disrupted pattern, a shift of life.
Today my daughter had a meeting for one of her classes. She said afterward that she misses being bored in class and misses seeing other teenagers.
My family is healthy and we’re lonely.
All is well here, but nothing is normal.
I find myself having weepy days or working super hard one day and being zapped of energy the next.
Sometimes the anxiety that I have worked so hard over the years to understand roars back to take control of my thoughts, dreams, or actions.
My faith at this time is the center that keeps me going. God is about this, the unexpected, the life shifts, the world changes.
God’s love and peace transcend all the chaos and fear of the world right now and calls us to find the moments of hope and light in it all.
To help me stay grounded in these challenging times this last week I ordered a field guide for the way, a daily spiritual practice kit. I chose to get the spring kit, Welcome. It’s about dwelling with God and living in to God’s hospitality. The kit comes with a journal and a bunch of supplies including a candle, seeds, and crayons to help complete the journal activities. I did one of these kits a year ago or so and really found it meaningful, but with the busyness of my regular life I hadn’t taken the time to order a new one.
If you are interested in a supplement to your current practice you can order just a journal for $5 or get a full kit for $59. Find out more here.
What ways are you finding to center and ground yourself in faith during these times?
Share here so that together we can keep finding ways to support each other in these strange days.
Blessings-
Eilidh
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