Good Morning!

We were stunned and saddened to learn about the loss of one of the great and inspiring athletes of modern times. Our hearts and thoughts go out to the Bryant family. We also mourn the other precious lives lost yesterday and pray for peace to surround all the families in this difficult time.

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There are times when we simply can’t understand why. Untimely loss causes conflict and confusion that seems impossible to overcome. We grieve, we get angry, we are in denial, we feel a myriad of emotions, none of which seem to lessen the pain or bring some sensibility or logic to the situation we’re trying to understand. We feel pain. We spend much of our time trying to avoid pain, but nevertheless, pain finds us. It’s frustrating and infuriating and fraught with futility.

And then one day we rise. We begin to see the light again. We find ourselves a little less burdened. We feel a spark of joy. We have found a way to make the negativity and challenges meaningful, and so we rise to a new level of conscious thought. We accept, we overcome, we supersede the pressure. We continue working to create more significant inroads for our lives.

In these seasons of loss and growth, of overcoming adversity and rising to new levels, hold tight to the foundational understanding that:

“To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven.” (NKJV)

Ecclesiastes 3:1

Be Well & Be Blessed!

Lucinda