What do we do with:

  • Teenage girls who get emotional
  • Kids who need help memorizing math facts
  • Kids who get tired & cranky (or tired & naughty)
  • A car that thinks it needs to rest (it's being repaired) when we need it to be driven
  • Bills we'd rather not pay
  • A kid whose only worry about college & a mission is how he'll pay for both
  • Apricot trees raining on our lawn
  • A disgusting #10 can of dehydrated beans which no one likes (they were free...guess that means they could get thrown out...wow.)
  • A hotel reservation in Lamar, CO....length of which is determined by performance in a baseball tourney
  • Kids who are not motivated enough to do what is asked
  • Kids who need or want money
  • Kids who need to work more
  • Kids who don't want to work
  • Programs which  are unimportant,  but which we feel obligated to participate in
  • Siblings who don't keep in touch
  • Parents who don't keep in touch
  • The garage sale pile

We realize that most of these things are wordly details & cares.  We take a breath (a calming yoga breath) and we let 'em go.  Which is what I'm gonna do now.

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