Dear Me,
So here at halftime — who do you want to be, and what do you want to achieve?
What do you say to the person you want to be, after four decades of living as the person you have always been?
Trust — in everything trust Him.
Trust Him when your world turns dark, when you face a string of loss, when you’ve got to work your way out of dead-ends, detours, derailments…
Trust Him when life hasn’t turned out the way you thought it would be, or when you are not who you thought you’re supposed to be.
Persevere in your hard. Satisfaction comes from the smallest of things. So choose everyday beauty.
Gaze at beauty and you’ll be beautiful.
Stand in the sun, breathe in the breeze, smell the rain, kiss the flowers.
Stroke the pup to sleep, sip your coffee slow, watch Top Gun squeezing hard the hand of the man you love who laughs out too loud.
This is everyday Sabbath; savouring your life is the way you’re saving your soul.
At your halftime, think hard:
Do you want to spend your finite time chasing after the goods, or being chased by His goodness?
When the hard of life happens, trust your way through the night with thanks.
Who by worrying can add a single iota of time to life?
For every diagnosis that’s out of your control, relax, He is in control. For every departure with friends and every death that appears too early, rest, He redeems all things new.
Surrender to loving others over keeping a safe distance.
Practice smiling. A smile brings closer the heart’s distance, bears under the disappointment of day and bridges the differences of opinions. Smile to yourself, smile at your life, smile into the slowness of things; they too can grow your soul.
There’s always time to:
Relive old jokes, crank up some jazz, watch old videos, and talk to people from all walks of life.
Be amazed, sit in awe of the everyday, and you’ll remain inspired all your day.
Thank the Husband tonight.
After two decades of being moulded into each other, and all the things that still look out of shape, tell him: he’s your best, the world’s best, your forever best.
Choose to be proven wrong. Say sorry often. Plead for a reset for all the ways you’ve let him down and confess your shortcoming because this is how you continue a lifelong love.
Everyday, come home the Word.
Take it extra hot with your steaming coffee. Let it stir you and read you. Plead the truth to penetrate, purge and purify you. Ask for revelation to see how what you’ve read can be a semblance into how you live.
Go hug your brood. Yes, they’ve been sick a lot. Yes, things have been left undone a lot. But in the slowness of things; find inspiration, choose creativity, prize heart connection.
Grow with God everyday and you’ll have something to live for each new day.
Every day is this brand new hope and the beginning of your forever new life.
Here you can be a student all over again:
Stop shortchanging the gift of who you are because of the worry of who you aren’t.
Want His intimacy more than what shines and sparkles.
Never forget the real definition of hope.
Christ didn’t come to give you solutions out of the hard but to give you hope in all the hard.
Believe that grace melts away hardness.
Believe that grace changes everything and redeems all thing.
Believe that He is able to change you.
Even here at your half-time…