As I write this it is April 15th and I am sitting in Starbucks and it is snowing outside.
Again.
I’m convinced Hell isn’t hot and fiery. It’s Minnesota in April when it is cold, dull steel gray and snowing. Still.
Eternally (it would seem).
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I love making lists.
And I’ve been making a lot of them lately.
To-do lists, grocery lists, lists of goals, and especially Christmas lists of gifts, and party planning, and elf-like stuff.
I think one reason we make lists is because we like the illusion of control it gives us. It says “I have a plan!” We get to check things off, accomplish things (and yes, I’ve been known to do something and then add it to my list so I could check it off).
But sometimes those lists are the very thing that threaten to leave us clutching a bottle of Advil, wondering “How in the world did I get in this mess and how many days til January 2nd?”
And then I imagine Jesus saying, “Come to Me all who are weary with Christmas and give me your lists.”
One afternoon when Katy was in kindergarten she got off the bus and informed me that she had learned “the f-word.”
“Fart.”
She later told us she had also learned the “sh-word”
“Shut up.”
Honestly, in our family the real “f-word” isn’t fart. And it isn’t another word that might come to mind.
It’s “fine”.
To my mind, “fine” may be the most terrible word in the english language. And words matter as my friend Sharon always reminds me.
Probably once a week I get THE question, “What do you do?”
I don’t have a business card or a title or a clear-cut job description so I stutter a lot when answering. Some of you can relate. Others are reading this and feeling huge relief that they can’t relate.
Monday I wrote about how sometimes we can feel reduced to “names” and “numbers”, and other times we cling to our names and numbers like a life jacket that’s the only thing keeping us safe.
As much as we try to major on living out of our identity in Christ, that can be about as easy as feeling comfortable on a blind date. So I’ve been thinking about others who may have struggled with this issue.
Hi, I’m Laura – a Jesus-follower who gets it wrong a lot, but is still beloved just like you.
