It's been a few days since I updated this; it's been a busy couple of days. I won't bore you with all the details, though I'm amazed at how many there are.
We have three categories of issues we're working on dealing with. (I'm a teacher; I can break anything down to three points!)
1) Helping Sue's Mom, who's still in the convalescent home, but is not improving like we want her to.
2) Dealing with Charlie's death; he had no will, and he lived and died in California, and we're completely ignorant, so this is both frighteningly expensive and stunningly complicated.
3) The care and feeding of our own souls, both individually, as a couple and the family we lead. Our daughter from Germany is visiting, so it's wonderful and complicated; our own souls are being stretched, so it's wonderful that we're growing, but it's painful to grow, and our marriage relationship is having to carry more weight than ever before.
I'm afraid that a whole lot of outside duties and relationships and people and ideas are having to fall by the wayside as we concentrate our limited energies on these three. We miss our old church, but we're glad to not have those responsibilities on us right now.
Thanks so much for your prayers. We need wisdom to identify the priority tasks, courage to let the lower priorities slide, compassion where it is called for, boldness where that is required, and wisdom to administrate people, money and tasks. Oh, and we want to grow as much as we can in this season: we want to thrive, to come out stronger and wiser and kinder, not just survive. Your prayers help us get there! Thank you!
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