Embrace the Journey Instead of Fighting It (Breathe Again)

It has been a challenging season. As we navigate back-to-school and sport schedules, it feels a bit like swimming upstream in white-capped rapids–one step forward, two steps back, as you try to keep your head above water. Coincidently, one of our kiddos is a swimmer.

During one of Brooke’s swim meets, she was assigned to swim the 500-meter race. That’s 20 laps! After lap 5 she wanted to quit (I don’t blame her one iota). But she kept going, steadily, one lap and then the next.

On top of th...