How good can life get?
$5+ gas. Inflation. A divided country. Life is still beautiful in the middle of all of it.
“Show me how good life can get.”
This has been my prayer for the past few months. Today, it looked like getting to take a break from work and play fetch with our dog Murphy in the river during her morning walk. A couple of weekends ago, it was picking strawberries as a family.
For the past several months, I’ve been working with an executive coach named Curtis Strauss. This has been an incredible experience of moving forward and growing deeper.
In my first session with Curtis, I told him I had just submit my resignation at The Salvation Army the previous day. My commute was nearly 2 hours round-trip every day and I wasn’t finding satisfaction with my success there. In 2021, their Director of Communications and Marketing role was the perfect challenge and call to “get out of the house” after a season of lock-downs and pandemic. After a year of commuting, I finally embraced that the org simply wasn’t for me. I’ve been pursuing my agency Joy Ethic full-time ever since.
Curtis helped me define both my non-negotiables and some framing ideas for this season of transition. We set some goals - a lot of them around my physical health — and set out together on a journey. Honestly, it felt like discipleship more than coaching, but it was just what I needed.
Here are a few things I re-discovered along the way:
🖤 Relationships are gifts from God to be intentional with, not assets to be leveraged or commodified.
👨👩👧👦 Kelly and I are living the dream with our little family.
✌🏼Shalom is the foundation to build on.
🌴 Don’t work at your life. Play at your life. (Yes, Leonard Sweet that is from you!) Don’t white knuckle it — stay open to the movement of God’s Providence and the ordering of events.
🔥 Life is an exercise in faith.
I love the work God has called us to along the way. I am wired to be proactive and have the gift of never being satisfied — I’m always looking to the future and next thing as a result — but I’ve come to realize that God is our provider. I’m still constantly peaking through my fingers — filled with wonder by how good life can get.
Something I Loved This Week
Freddie returned to Atlanta. Lots of emotions, but Atlanta did an amazing job of honoring him:
