Calm Down; It's Just Life

7/22/2017

Dikkon Eberhart

I’m saying this to myself. Maybe to you, too—depends on your situation.

A big thing is happening in Channa’s and my household. Our youngest daughter, her husband, and their four small children are moving in with us for an extended stay. There is a logical reason for this, and we are all positive about it.

It bodes well for all of us, and we have all prayed to the Lord for wisdom, for patience, for forbearance, and for joy.

To be close to and helpful with the raising of our grandchildren, with godly assertion, has been one of our pleasures.

However, that said, the daily nature of all our lives is changing.

Channa and I have been stimulated during the 40 years of our marriage by changes when they occurred—and we have always said “yes” about addressing life head on. (Mostly always!)

We were “life-ians” even before we were Christians.

How this event affects you--

This post is already a day late. I want you to have this news, so you can be aware of why the lateness occurred and also tipped off in advance if lateness occurs again. Things will calm down into a more predictable pattern as a few weeks go by.

I posted the photograph above because it made me laugh, and because it’s on-point for the event that is dominating our house and time right now.

Our youngest granddaughter (who will be happy to tell you, if you ask, that she is two—because she just became two one week ago)—she and I were having a stroll. She was concentrating on picking up pebbles and giving them to me. I was concentrating on time because shortly we needed to pick up her older sister and brother at Vacation Bible School.

We came across this sign at the ball field behind the library.

Good advice. (Too bad it needs to be stated.)

Good advice for all of us.

Calm down; it’s just life.

6 Comments

Cathy Dudley

7/22/2017 11:27:50 am

Oh My!!! Yes, a joy for sure to have this increase in your home ... and yet a sacrifice too for you and your wife's more leisurely pace and time together. You have such a good heart, and I know you're thankful you have these precious ones. It IS Life! 🌠

Dikkon

7/23/2017 05:40:06 pm

Yes, it is! Thanks, Cathy. The way the Lord leads us is the way that we should go, irrespective of our double-thinking. Calm down; it's just life...and it belongs to Him anyway.

floyd link

7/22/2017 11:52:58 am

Those are the bittersweet kind of circumstances. It's fascinating how the difficult times always turn out to be some of the best memories with time.

Excellent sign and advice! Choosing to stay calm instead of letting our emotions get the best of us is an exercise of one of the greatest gifts we get in this flesh; free will.

7/23/2017 05:44:24 pm

I like the way you put it, each side of it--the circumstances and the sign. I received a number of responses on Facebook from readers who remember childhood times living with their grand parents because of various family events, and they remember those times very fondly. I hope Channa and I can generate some of those same fond memories for our four little grandchild sprats to cherish after she and I have passed on.

Peter Cutler link

7/23/2017 11:43:15 am

Life surely does "happen". For the last couple of months my wife and I have experienced considerable turmoil in our home due to unexpected circumstances but with patience and faith things are slipping back into something approaching normality. Change itself does not dictate our lives, it is how we react to it that determines outcome. Choices, always choices.

7/23/2017 05:49:33 pm

Yes, choices--may the Lord bless you--and I am happy to hear about the slipping back toward normality. I was unaware of the turmoil, but I am your friend and I am sad that it has occurred.

Calm Down; It's Just Life

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