The Intentional Life

 Wooo, May. You were a bit nuts.  You kept us moving from sunup to sundown. Soccer, Ballet, Jog-A-Thon, End of School Events, Potluck, Coffee with a Friend, Date Night (YES!!), plus a whole lot more in between. There were a lot of hard things that happened in May, things that can't be put into pictures, hard life-altering things, that happened to a lot of people who are in our circle. As an empath , I struggle to focus as my heart breaks for them, as I bring them before the Throne of our Father.  I count it a privilege that I can be a prayer warrior for them. As I witness them glorifying God through their suffering, I am humbled by what I can learn from them. Plus it shows me I have so far to go. The things that can be put into pictures, well, there is quite a line up for May:  Soccer Season, it can be 40 and raining one week and 70's the next. One week, because of colliding schedules, I had to coach Owen's soccer team for Paul. It was, well, that face belo...

May was a little nuts. I can remember this happening now for the past couple years but I feel like it ramped up a bit more from other Mays in the past. When I flipped the calendar to May, everyday had something scheduled except for May 1st and Memorial Day (go figure!).  I told myself to just hang on, enjoy as much of the ride as possible, and hope to catch my breath in June. I was starting to feel guilty about the fact that I have let my decluttering slip a bit. Although I did take an entire van load to the local thrift shop, I failed to document the different things that I cleaned out. Truthfully, I just couldn't fit the time in to take the pictures, upload, and write a blog post. And I was felling pretty guilty about it (do you see a pattern in my personality here...?). Then, last week, as I was driving to get groceries, I was listening to an interview on the local Christian music station.  The excerpt that has been rolling around in my head ever since went...