Lean In

I see you. I am you. Another morning, another diaper change, another dish, another tantrum. 

Another phone call.

Another appointment.

Another meal.

Another snack.

The mundane tasks blurring together, leaving you feeling like walking through life sometimes feels more like sleepwalking. 

When our kids were babies and toddlers, seasons changed as quickly as I tended to change my mind. I would finally learn their sleeping and eating schedules, only to learn the following day it was time to drop one of their naps, and somehow, overnight, all their taste buds had changed. 

I thought I had grown out of the years we had to hold such loose routines in our hands, palms open. Yet, here I am as an adult, realizing I must give myself the same grace as the babe who eventually had to learn to fall asleep without a nighttime nursing session. 

Of course, the pandemic and current events have much to do with this, but it’s more than that. The seasons of learning, growing, and changing as an adult don’t stop. The more I reflect on who God has created me to be, the more I see the bend around the corner, where I need to adjust and turn course. 

God, in his goodness, nudges me along.

You aren’t alone. It’s hard to stay awake to life in the mundane moments. Lean in. He longs to reintroduce you to yourself.