The Intentional Life

  Thoughts. It was one of those moments.   Each kid was occupied with a book, homework, computer game, something. All I know is that the house was quiet. I had dinner as prepped as it could be as I waited for the water to boil.   I had, essentially, a moment of quiet. An empty slot of time to do nothing but wait.   Your first thought may be, “Good for her. I never have those.” But, I’m guessing, if you thought about it, you just might.   Standing in a checkout line.   Arriving to a coffee shop before a friend.   Sitting in the van waiting on school to let out.   Standing at the counter waiting on the coffee to brew.   Throughout our day there are little moments of time where we are waiting but we may find it hard to identify them as such because we are so used to filling them up. Those scenarios I listed, how many of them would be quickly followed by: I picked up my phone or I tuned into a podcast or I turned on the radio   How often do we, instead, just wait.   We have turned into a p

                    Heart. Is it just me or does it feel like things are falling apart lately? Between the news that’s blasted, the politics that are squabbled over, the varying views on what is and isn’t a pandemic, and everyone’s plans for 2020 being put on hold or modified, it just feels like things are hardly staying together at the seams. Some of these things are within our control: turn off the news, get off social media, cast your vote, put your plans in pencil instead of pen, wash your hands. But those bigger things, those things that seem colossal and beyond what we can control, what do we do about those? What do we do when those things out of our control threaten to overwhelm us? Truth. Always, 100% of the time, go to Truth. He is the image of the invisible God…For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were creat