Today's Normal

I once went on a hike with some men from church. It was normal, until one of them slipped into a waterfall and didn't immediately come back up. Suddenly it wasn't normal. The normal hike became an event we still talk about over 25 years later. He and the rest of the group all survived, thankfully.

The same kind of thing is happening now. We're joining those generations who just happened to be alive when things suddenly stopped being normal. The challenge is to maintain and defend the dignity of all people, to maintain our integrity, and to look for ways we can build trust among all people. Circumstances (and the enemy of us all) will work to break the trust we might otherwise have, to separate one person from another, them from us, the winners from the losers.

Take an extra moment to think clearly, to look for how you can love and serve others, for how God is working in every moment (for He is). Tomorrow will not be yesterday's normal. But in every day's normal is the opportunity to look, listen, and love.