I missed the sloth hug, because, well, I was being a sloth!
Snow days are all fun and games until the snow day comes where you are a working parent scrambling for child care so that you can still go to work or rescheduling just about everything. This gets me thinking about when any other life experience for virtually anyone who has a trajectory in mind for their schedules or their life but circumstances intervene to change the path.
It was a few years ago, four years actually, that I finished my masters in Human Services Marriage and Family counseling. I had a plan to transition from volunteering at the current nonprofit I volunteered at to work in marketing. When school started for my children, one in kindergarten, the other in preschool, circumstances with my children's school schedule changed. I went from a perceived trajectory of future nonprofit marketing manager to not even having time to volunteer.
I played it over and over in my head but God's voice was clear in this situation. I needed to have faith that God had a plan even if it looked nothing like I could see at that point. That is how faith works. Not that I always got it right. Still don't. It did take me eight years of feet dragging and slogging to finish my undergrad. I also missed a great deal of opportunities to a straight up lazy attitude during that time. That I could have held a sloth in college but didn't is so totally not lost on me. Fast forward to post graduate game plan change; I put my son down for a nap, let myself have a good cry, took a nap myself and then moved on.
The expectations in the mere moments from when our eyes open in the morning to the reality when our feet hit the floor is what makes us or breaks us.
Grit: the "firmness of mind or spirit: unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger" (Merriam-Webster dictionary online)
The rest of my story is history (until it changes anyway). I'm a chaplain, art teacher and mom. My favorite place I use my counseling degree is in being a mom honestly but the rest is fun too. Besides that trajectories still change. Hello snow days! Need to go to work? Nope. Need to.... nope.
King David had a better example of trajectory whip lash than any of us. I mean seriously. The guy was anointed king and didn't actually get his throne until years later. Even then, after fighting the previous king, he had plenty of other people including his own family to contend with. I'm sure plenty of times, King David turned his prayers to heaven with a major question mark... but always faith.
But always faith.
That for me is the whole cornerstone whether it be snow day schedule change or a massive career trajectory redirect. I want to be like David. While I cry out in my weak human state way less eloquent that David, probably a lot more sarcasm (sorry God for that), I want my faith to propel me to follow the course God has for me. Today it is simply be here, at home with my peeps. Tomorrow is another day.
It was a few years ago, four years actually, that I finished my masters in Human Services Marriage and Family counseling. I had a plan to transition from volunteering at the current nonprofit I volunteered at to work in marketing. When school started for my children, one in kindergarten, the other in preschool, circumstances with my children's school schedule changed. I went from a perceived trajectory of future nonprofit marketing manager to not even having time to volunteer.
I played it over and over in my head but God's voice was clear in this situation. I needed to have faith that God had a plan even if it looked nothing like I could see at that point. That is how faith works. Not that I always got it right. Still don't. It did take me eight years of feet dragging and slogging to finish my undergrad. I also missed a great deal of opportunities to a straight up lazy attitude during that time. That I could have held a sloth in college but didn't is so totally not lost on me. Fast forward to post graduate game plan change; I put my son down for a nap, let myself have a good cry, took a nap myself and then moved on.
The expectations in the mere moments from when our eyes open in the morning to the reality when our feet hit the floor is what makes us or breaks us.
Grit: the "firmness of mind or spirit: unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger" (Merriam-Webster dictionary online)
The rest of my story is history (until it changes anyway). I'm a chaplain, art teacher and mom. My favorite place I use my counseling degree is in being a mom honestly but the rest is fun too. Besides that trajectories still change. Hello snow days! Need to go to work? Nope. Need to.... nope.
King David had a better example of trajectory whip lash than any of us. I mean seriously. The guy was anointed king and didn't actually get his throne until years later. Even then, after fighting the previous king, he had plenty of other people including his own family to contend with. I'm sure plenty of times, King David turned his prayers to heaven with a major question mark... but always faith.
But always faith.
That for me is the whole cornerstone whether it be snow day schedule change or a massive career trajectory redirect. I want to be like David. While I cry out in my weak human state way less eloquent that David, probably a lot more sarcasm (sorry God for that), I want my faith to propel me to follow the course God has for me. Today it is simply be here, at home with my peeps. Tomorrow is another day.
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