I sit on the front porch, relishing the North Carolina green that surrounds me, magnolia trees beginning to show off with blooms up and down, the morning air still crisp from a rain the night before.
The girls are noisy rowdy in front of me, wrestling over sidewalk chalk, lost within a world of superhero princesses, unknowingly writing a story for themselves that sings with creativity and courage and imagination and good.
And I am fully here with them. I have a thing for the everyday ordinary.
If I only have the eyes to see, grace saturates each day and carries us through the good and the hard and the mess and the chaos. I know this.
But still, I find myself going there too: The news reports of yet another crisis, a step ahead to next week’s problems, holding tightly to next year’s worries that might or night not play out. I am here right now with my right-now people, reminding myself to take in the grace because I don’t want to miss this, but I am also there, worrying fearing, fretting.
It happens in the day and it happens in the night. Sometimes in the middle of heart-stoppingly joyful moments, but sometimes too, in complete silence.
Sometimes my anxiety stems from something as simple as the mundane details of life, but it can also paralyze me as I whirl around worst case scenarios, envisioning how I would respond should something happen to me or one of my people.
Small or big- it doesn’t matter, my worry finds a way to lay claim to any situation.
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