I've previously written about the chaotic few years my family and I have experienced, and we've had more of the same in 2025 - with more challenges on the horizon.
Last October, as Rebekah and I began recreating our BryonySeries financial year, the amount of paperwork documenting projects kept coming.
Ironically, both of us were ill that day, but the work needed to be done.
At one point, we stopped and looked at each other asking, "How? How did we get this all done?"
So many times, we've been so far behind on "stuff," that when we start to tackle getting caught up, we got knocked even farther behind.
These past three days have been very productive, so much so that we've been lulled into thinking "catching up" is possible.
But is it? Or are our cynical minds fearing that's an illusion?
We might get caught up this time - or we might start over and "catching up" will be delayed.
However, I also believe the time of constant turmoil is also a season, one that reminds us that progress and accomplishment is possible in the midst of storms and that mild weather and circumstances will return - and that life is both and not always linearly.
So here is my new favorite Bible verse and my personal mantra for this year. I clung it these past months of WriteOn Joliet's 2025 radio play season, when I had three emergency room visits, one hospital stay, and two new and separate diagnoses, and one scheduled (and then rescheduled) surgery - and I didn't know if participation in the play was possible and if I should quit or keep rehearsing (I kept rehearsing).
"If you wait for perfect weather, you will never plant your seeds.
"If you are afraid that every cloud will bring rain, you will never harvest your crops.
"You do not know which way the wind will blow." Ecclesiastes 11:4-5.
Happy Monday!
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