As my family settles into summer mode, I am trying to find my rhythm and routines with Kate, Gavin and Matt home. I don't know about you, but I am a creature of habit and when my schedule has to change, it can take a little bit of time for me to adjust mentally to it.

I share this with you today in case you relate. I invite you to join me to...

pause. breathe. pray.™

Years ago a dear friend gifted me the words above, "Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape." I love this gift and have these words where I can see them daily as a reminder to be flexible. For it is better to be more like an elastic band, than a pencil for when a pencil is bent is breaks, but an elastic band remains intact. I want to bend, not break.

How about you?

As we adjust to summer schedules, or whatever you may be adjusting to, may we ask God for wisdom on where we need to be more flexible, and a willing heart to bend, so we don't break;-)

With love and hope,

Shawn

Set your minds on things that are above,
not on things that are on earth.
- Colossians 3:2