Living Good News: A Strategy
Designing a Good News Lifestyle isn’t like designing your dream bedroom on Pinterest. It is work. Hard work. Like a game with many moving parts, it requires clarity, strategy, and practice.
Some life moments require clarity, strategy, practice in order for us to experience them as Good News.
Like, when your little brother is about to move in to your guest room after eight years in prison.
Or, when you are heading to another city to meet the sister your mother gave up for adoption fourteen years before you were born.
Or, as your big sister’s wedding is fast approaching and you think their whole relationship is superficial and gross.
Or, as you plan to go home for thanksgiving for the first time since becoming clean and sober.
Or, when you must face the emotional task of cleaning out your mom’s bedroom after her death.
Or, as you navigate the relocation of your parents into your basement from 2,160 miles away.
Or, when you are trying to do your job and care for your online learner children all at the same time.
Each of these examples, and whatever life moment stands before you this day, deserves some advance consideration. When you are clear, strategic and well-practiced in how you might speak, act, behave, listen, you will likely be more gracious and responsive rather than knee-jerk and quickly injured/injuring.
Over the coming days, we’ll look at how clarity, strategy and practice can change your life moments for good.
