Never Take Normal For Granted

I love this time of year, when the leaves start to change, the temperature cools a bit, football is in full gear and basketball is just around the corner😉, and cozy sweaters and sweatshirts get pulled out of the closet. Don’t get me wrong I love, love, love summer, but change is nice and living in Iowa with the four seasons is great. I like change (just ask Mike or my kids, I move things all the time, including furniture, decorations, clothes, everything), but I also like “normal” and I don’t like when my normal is suddenly taken away from me! The normal things that we take for granted are changing some for Mike, things like taste (can’t taste much), sunshine (too bright), normal feeling hands and feet (tingling, and painful neuropathy), among some other things. These aren’t huge issues but they aren’t normal either, so just today Dr. Molina reduced Mikes clinical trial drug in half to see if these issues resolve...back to “normal”... our “new normal” anyway.

I have a lot of songs on repeat lately, and not just Need to Breathe although they will always be my favorite... my “normal band”. I love Zach Williams song Fear is a Liar, Jenn Johnson/Bethel music’s song Goodness of God, and Michael W. Smiths song Surrounded (fight my battles) and I loudly sing along.........”this is how I fight my battles, it may look like I’m surrounded but.....I’m surrounded by YOU”!!!!

As we live our new normal life we want to encourage everyone to embrace normal...it’s the normal stuff that fill the highs and lows of life and make up most of our days. Sometimes in the highs of life we just cruise along and forget to really rely on God and in the lows we get down on our knees and plead with Him to answer our prayers, but He is always faithful, He does know what He is doing even if at times it doesn’t seem like it. So.......” with every breath that we are able we should sing of the goodness of God”!!!


Just Breathe,

Paula