We are so glad to be back. Being on the road with the 3 littles felt like forever and also like five minutes. We will catch you up on part two of the trip next week (hint: it was our happy place 🌊) but we had to start here first…

We headed down to Dothan, AL to visit Grandma. (Vlog of our trip here!) Her health has not been the greatest lately to put it lightly and trips like that always reveal something deeper going on behind the scenes.

You know how you can be stressing about money, annoyed that things are not going your way, scrolling and quietly comparing your life to everyone else's... and then you walk into a hospital?

You are not the one being rolled in. You are not hooked up to machines. You are not in that weird space with only a plastic curtain for privacy.

Just like that, every step further into the hospital another piece of worry and stress that has been paying rent in your headspace falls away.

A “recalibration” was definitely needed. Which was good and necessary and also a little annoying because we already knew how fast we would go right back to the worry and frustration the second we got home. And sure enough. Nap times are missed, emails stack up, unspoken expectations come knocking at your subconscious.

We do not think God rolls His eyes at us. That is not really His character. But we do think He might be saddened over how quickly we forget what He has already done while we fixate on what He has not done yet.

Which reminds us of Matthew 14. Jesus feeds five thousand people. A full on miracle. The disciples are standing right there watching it happen in amazement.

Then Matthew 15 (ONE CHAPTER LATER) rolls around, the crowds are hungry again and the disciples look at Jesus and say... "where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?"

Guys. We were literally JUST here. haha.

But we do the same thing. We watch God move and two weeks later we are acting like He has never shown up for us and probably will not start now.

And what really got us is what Jesus does NOT do in that moment. He does not guilt them. He does not withhold. He does not say I cannot believe you forgot already.

He just rolls up his sleeves and does it again.

That is who we are dealing with! A God who is not surprised by our forgetfulness or worn out by our doubt.

So in light of that we are trying to shift how we pray. Less of "Jesus here is what you should probably do because it makes the most sense to me" and more of "what can YOU do here, King Jesus?"

Because He is going to do something. We just have to stop telling Him what it has to look like. Which, admittedly, is hard to do.
For us, at least

Do you need a perspective shift today? Some kind of threshold to walk through to get your eyes off of what is not going your way and back onto what is?

We hope this was it. 🙏

More from the trip next week. Love yall!

Chad, Tori, Micah, Noah & Ezra

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