Pandemic Ponderings, part 1

https://youtu.be/2hvdvsEn7KI

I often wonder how many things in our world are shifting. So much seems to be "on thin ice." It could be that these shifts have been happening for a while, but now that a full world-wide pandemic has thrown us all into a chaos, it is impossible to come back from. 

Shifts in my own life, personally and professionally, have opened up so many questions. Pondering such questions can be scary and exhilarating all at the same time. 

This really great short film was part of the 2019-2020 Banff Mountain Film Festival. It captures one of the new (or RENEWED) messages that I heard loud and clear at the beginning of the pandemic. Maybe you also have heard it. It is the message that so many moms have said: "Go Outside!"

"We need to be outside."

 

Every good gift

Over the last month, I have been in New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. I swam in the Atlantic Ocean (again!) 

I have also spent time dog sitting for some friends. These friends, old and new, two legged and four-legged remind me of a simple truth that is worth keepin near to the heart. We all have friends. We all need friends! Treasure the friends in your life. I am counting them as some of the greatest gifts nowadays. 

James 1:17

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows