The dust is settling.
The whirlwind of activity that the holidays brought, the loss of our sister carried in, and the very loved and welcomed visitors shared is now over.
School started again. Ministry is still on break in part, but we are back to work. Some things feel exactly like they did before Christmas. Other things feel so completely strange and different.
God continues to be sweet to us in the whole process.
We are starting to embrace our new roles sometimes gracefully and other times with more of an intentional effort.
I read this verse in our Bible study this week and it has stuck with me:
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
-1 Thes. 4:13-14
So we grieve - in hope and expectation.
