From Everlasting to Everlasting
It feels like I can barely catch my breath. Like so many others, balancing work and COVID-quarantine life, I’m honestly struggling to follow through with one consistent train of thought. At La Casa Sully, the day is spent bouncing back and forth between conference calls, giving homeschool direction, breaking up sibling quarrels, making meals, quieting my children’s tears and frustrations, and trying to come up with ideas for fun activities to do in our “free time” while we’re all together. The counters are lined with post-it notes, questions from kiddos pouring in while I simultaneously try to consider the leadership needs of my entire organization. Meanwhile, deadlines zoom past for overdue manuscript edits, cover design decisions, and marketing touchpoints for my book coming out in the months ahead (still, yay!). Sunlight streams in the windows, inviting us to step outside and leave it all behind.
I take a breath. I remember the moments we’ve spent over the past week, tromping through the nearby creek, eating lunch on the back porch, and watching concerts together in our living room. These are the things our kids’ memories will one day be made of - fleeting daily appointments for wonder and togetherness. I reflect upon the daily sacrifices my hubby and his staff are making in the hospital, supplies and protocols constantly in flux, concerns about personal safety suspended for the greater good. And, I remember that the opportunity to do our little part in this whole thing is a privilege, one that I’m grateful to make. This, too, shall pass. So today, as I trek through chaos and uncertainty, I will plan to use whatever energy and focus I have within me to lift my eyes to the Lord, and to rest in His everlasting love. And I’ll invite my children to join me.
Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits - who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s…
As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more. But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children…
Psalm 103:1-5,17
