New Year, No Clue
Can I tell you the story of how God takes care of us when the tracks of what we thought was our life trajectory just came to an abrupt end and we're feeling derailed? I hope so. I don't know what it is yet. But I hope to tell you that story. Our 2023 Christmas season began like a holiday movie trope. One minute we're buying gifts and decorating mantels, and the next we find out Dad is being laid off his job (we found out Nov. 30 that it was happening Jan. 2). While we don't put our trust in horses or chariots or institutions (and increasingly not this one), and the season of Advent and Christmas brought constant reminders that great light comes in the darkness, that gifts comes in the most unexpected ways, that God is present with us, and that all our hopes and fears are met in His faithfulness, we are still human and we felt--initially, throughout the season, and feel still--the weight and the sting of this decision, of its timing and its reverberations. And like movi...
