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Tears and To-Do Lists: Two Ways that I Move Towards Balance
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been running at full throttle day after day after day. Getting through the holidays was tough. We lost three family members in one week during the month of October so there was the reality of having empty seats at family dinners and fewer voices cheering on the Cowboys. I was frantically working to complete my IWLC certification before the deadline. We endured the complications and stresses of being a blended family during the Christmas season. Friends and family are going through cancer scares and cancer treatments. Our youngest daughter is entering her last semester of high school and preparing for college. I’ve been learning how to edit video and build websites and holding practice coaching sessions.
Some days I just want to run away and live in a monastery. Simplification, solitude, and silence hang before me like golden fruit dripping with possibility. But alas, that is not the path my life is on.
I am in a season of mastery. Transitioning into a new career and mastering the art of being well — physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually — this is a season of lessons to be learned and hard work to be done.
I’ve learned some things over the past couple of months that I would like to share with you, dear reader. Perhaps some of these lessons will speak…
